What is the meaning of Sifter?

  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) One who or that which, sifts.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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