sifter

From sift + -er.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪftɚ/

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• Rhymes: -ɪftə(ɹ)

sifter (plural sifters)

1. A tool for sifting, especially one for powdered cooking ingredients.

   Near-synonym: sieve

2. (rare) One who sifts.

   He was employed as a sifter.

3. 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 lamellae of the beak.

• Fersit, resift, efrits, freits, firest, refits, strife, rifest, Fister, fister, firste