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sifters

sifters is the plural of sifter.

Meaning of sifter

Noun

sifter (plural sifters)

  1. A tool for sifting, especially one for powdered cooking ingredients.
    • Near-synonym: sieve
    Synonyms:
    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.

Questions about sifters

What is sifters the plural of?
Sifters is the plural of sifter.

Words near sifters in the dictionary

  1. siftage
  2. sifted
  3. sifted out
  4. sifted through
  5. sifter
  6. sifters
  7. sifteth
  8. sifting
  9. sifting out
  10. sifting through
  11. siftingly

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