A utensil or device for straining, filtering, or sifting; a filter, sieve, screen, or the like.

A sieve; a strainer. Now only in renge sieve.

A piece of canvas used for various purposes. A sheet, covering or screen; a filtering or bolting cloth; a blind for a carriage window, etc. Obsolete.

A strainer. Obsolete.

A sieve or strainer. (In the first quot. the word may be Anglo-Norman.)

A sieve, strainer (esp. for milk).

A strainer. Obsolete.

A sieve. Also ranger sieve. Cf. range, n.2

A sieve.

Anything which strains; a strainer.

A kind of sieve or strainer. Also range-sieve.

A sieve or strainer.

A sieve; a milk strainer.

A strainer, colatory.

A sieve; a strainer or bolting-cloth; also tamis-bolter, tamis-cloth.

(See quots.)

Applied to various things formed, like a hurdle, of crossing bars or grating. A sieve, strainer, or colander.

A piece of this used as a strainer.

Used to render French étamine, a strainer.

A strainer.

A strainer or bolter, of this stuff; = tamis, n. 1.

(see quot.).

Cookery. Usually with lower-case initial. A type of very fine metal sieve or strainer with a conical shape.