Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To strain; cause to pass through, or as through, a sieve or colander; filter; percolate.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb obsolete To cause to pass through a sieve or colander; to strain, as through a sieve.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb obsolete, transitive To strain, as if through a sieve.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

trans- + Latin colare, colatum, to filter, to strain.

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