sifter

Noun

1. A tool for sifting, especially one for powdered cooking ingredients.
   • Near-synonym: sieve

   Synonyms: sieve

2. One who sifts.
   • He was employed as a sifter.
3. 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 lamellae of the beak.