- One who strains. - That through which any liquid is passed for purification
or to separate it from solid matter; anything, as a screen or a cloth,
used to strain a liquid; a device of the character of a sieve or of a
filter; specifically, an openwork or perforated screen, as for the end
of the suction pipe of a pump, to prevent large solid bodies from
entering with a liquid.
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