sifter

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Recumbent, he tosses a few handfuls of duff into a sifter fashioned from a cat litter box with its bottom cut out and replaced by a screen.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 19, 2022

For instance, if you're using oat flour or mesquite flour, you will want to use a sifter, as these flours tend to clump.

From Salon • Dec. 1, 2021

For about 10 days, she has used sifter boxes and shovels — left by a friendly stranger — to search for anything left.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 22, 2018

Putting the compost through a sifter will not increase its potency, but it will create a fine texture, breaking up moist clods and removing unwelcome items such as stones, bones and chunks of wood.

From Washington Post • Nov. 29, 2016

Other years, jobs like Pipeworks laborer, trash sifter, and mold scraper were mixed in.

From "The City of Ember" by Jeanne DuPrau