A strainer or colander for liquids
A column; pillar.
A sieve.
A young herring.
The foot or lower part of a couple or rafter; base.
A roof rafter or couple, usually one of a pair.
A beam; rafter; one of the principal rafters of a building.
That which is sifted or strained, hence, settlings; sediment; filth.
To go; pass.
To flow down; drip; drop; fall; sink.
To pour with rain.
To settle down; calm or compose oneself.
To strain, as milk; pass through a strainer or anything similar; filter.
To boil gently; simmer.
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.
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.
One who strains.