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English Dictionary: Sifter by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sifter
n
  1. a household sieve (as for flour)
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sifter \Sift"er\, n.
      1. One who, or that which, sifts.
  
      2. (Zo[94]l.) Any lamellirostral bird, as a duck or goose; --
            so called because it sifts or strains its food from the
            water and mud by means of the lamell[?] of the beak.
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