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Dusting aid
Answer for the clue "Dusting aid ", 6 letters:
sifter
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Word definitions for sifter in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sifter \Sift"er\, n. One who, or that which, sifts. (Zo["o]l.) 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.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a household sieve (as for flour)
Usage examples of sifter.
There was nothing on the right side of the sifter, other than a few rows of indicator lights.
He pressed the yellow button, and some of the lights on the sifter flickered to life.
I dropped the sifter, jumped off the table, and streaked up the hall toward the front room.
For he is the Master of Measure, and weighs, Broad as the arms of his blue, Fine as the web of his rays, Justice, whose voice is a melody clear, The one sure life for the numbered long, From him are the brutal and vain, The vile, the excessive, out-thrust: He points to the God on the upmost throne: He is the saver of grain, The sifter of spirit from dust.
He busied himself, first by pouring a glass of water and then a sifter of fine Cognac.
Lemoyne instructed as he exchanged the empty glass for the sifter of Cognac.
Once or twice, its crew lowered a sifter to comb through the dust, removing or adding something in just the proper proportion.
Saron is Favon: Destroyer of Corn when heavy and cold, Sifter of Blossoms when light and warm.
A whirring sounded inside the sifter, then a cone of white jetted out of the disposer tube and spatted down about thirty feet away.
A lazy Susan stood in the middle of the table, so crowded now with jars and bottles and cruets and sifters containing all their particular fads in condiments and seasonings that the twirling platform stalled out mid-circuit beneath the burden it bore.
To the left of the door was an Eastlake cabinet with a retractable tin counter and a built-in flour bin and sifter.
Rabbits, they run down to the spring, and try to dip up the water with the sifter, but of course it all run out, and it kept on running out, until by me by the little Rabbits sat down and began to cry.
Rabbits, they ran down to the spring, and tried to dip up the water with the sifter, but of course it all ran out, and it kept on running out, until by me by the little Rabbits sat down and began to cry.
But there were a great many fallals and odds and ends which were not in the least like the sifter which they use for riddling sand.
She returned to the counter where she picked up her sifter and began sifting cake flour into a mountain that had a perfect point on top.