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strainer
noun
A device through which a liquid is passed for purification, filtering or separation from solid matter; anything (including a screen or a cloth) used to strain a liquid; any device functioning as a sieve or filter - in special, a perforated screen or openwork (usually at the end of a suction pipe of a pump), used to prevent solid bodies from mixing in a liquid stream or flowline.
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Leave in a strainer for 10-15 minutes before placing in a heavy-bottomed saucepan with the water.
I forget to use the strainer and pour Nighy a terrible cup of tea.
Pour into tankards or cups through a tea strainer and add a fresh grating of nutmeg before serving.
Maté, the native tealike beverage brewed from yerba maté leaves, is popular in the countryside and is drunk from a gourd through a strainer; it is either sipped individually or shared in an important social ritual.
The ritualistic objects for this ceremony included a stone-slab altar, a basin for water, a small pot and a larger one for pouring the water, a mortar and pestle for grinding the plants, a cup into which the juice drips and a filter or strainer for decanting it, and cups for consuming the beverage obtained.
The drink is sucked from the gourd with a metal straw, known as a bombilla or bomba in Spanish, that is fitted with a strainer at one end to keep leaf particles from the mouth.
Elaborate 18th-century examples had tea and coffee pots, a milk or cream jug, a pair of tea caddies, a sugar bowl and pair of tongs, teaspoons and a small tray for them, a tea strainer, and cups and saucers.
An outraged Pastafarian in Canada has taken to YouTube to decry licence regulator ICBC for not respecting his rights to religious expression by preventing him from getting a driver's licence because he is wearing a pasta strainer atop his head in the photo.
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