0 a piece of kitchen equipment that you put flour, sugar, etc. through in order to break up large pieces :
Shake the dry ingredients through a flour sifter or strainer to remove lumps.
At the ready were large archaeology-style dirt sifters, though they proved unnecessary.
Bulldozers and sifters have begun the mammoth task of shifting the sand from people's yards and homes back to the beach.
This means that he picks up on aspects that the semantic lyric sifters ignore when scrutinising the stanzas on the page.
All the postmasters are in the invidious position of being censors and sifters.
Now, unfortunately, newly married people have got to pay more for the pot scourers, pastry boards, coal and cinder sieves and sifters and so on.
I now turn to the question of cinder sieves and sifters.