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† ˈclensieve Obs.
[= clean or cleanse-sieve. In same sense EFris. has klense, with vb. klensen to sift, filter.]
A fine sieve or strainer.
1609C. Butler Fem. Mon. (1634) 157 Let the pure hive-honey run thorow a clean Clensieve. Ibid. x. (1623) X j, The Clensieue is vnto the Tap-waze for Methe, as the Strainer to the Ridder for Honie.
A correspondent, Mr. A. Wallis, remembers clensieve or clensiff, applied a1850to a strainer of fine muslin, used in straining port wine. Cf. the following:
[c1460Medulla in Promp. Parv. 79 Colum..a clansynge syfe. c1475Pict. Vocab. (Wr.-Wülcker 808) among instruments of the Brewer, Colatorium, a clenyng sefe. 1879G. F. Jackson Shropsh. Word-bk. 81 Clansing-sieve, a large sieve used in brewing to strain the hops from the wort.] |