sifter Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a household sieve (as for flour)

WordNet

Sift"er noun
Definitions
  1. One who, or that which, sifts.
  2. (Zoöl.) 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.

Webster 1913