sieve

sieve is a   Noun

Definition:

[1] A utensil for separating the finer and coarser parts of a pulverized or granulated substance from each other. It consist of a vessel, usually shallow, with the bottom perforated, or made of hair, wire, or the like, woven in meshes. "In a sieve thrown and sifted." Chaucer.

[2] A kind of coarse basket. Simmonds. Sieve cells (Bot.), cribriform cells. See under Cribriform.

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