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  • noun Plural form of strainer.

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Examples

  • In the Minster to which they wend, their disused regimental colours droop along the aisles; tattered, a hundred years since, in Spanish battlefields, and by age worn almost to gauze -- "strainers," says Brother Copas, "that in their time have clarified much turbid blood."

    Brother Copas Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • "strainers," logs at or just below the surface can hold a person who can't escape the force of the river's rapids.

    News for Richmond Times-Dispatch 2009

  • I used an old croquet trolley to mount the muffin tin, pots, pans, whisks, strainers, and twisted an old candelabra to make an arm held high to hold the shamas.

    Vivian Reiss: Happy Hanukkah: the Latke Mobile Menorah Vivian Reiss 2011

  • I used an old croquet trolley to mount the muffin tin, pots, pans, whisks, strainers, and twisted an old candelabra to make an arm held high to hold the shamas.

    Vivian Reiss: Happy Hanukkah: the Latke Mobile Menorah Vivian Reiss 2011

  • I used an old croquet trolley to mount the muffin tin, pots, pans, whisks, strainers, and twisted an old candelabra to make an arm held high to hold the shamas.

    Vivian Reiss: Happy Hanukkah: the Latke Mobile Menorah Vivian Reiss 2011

  • I used an old croquet trolley to mount the muffin tin, pots, pans, whisks, strainers, and twisted an old candelabra to make an arm held high to hold the shamas.

    Vivian Reiss: Happy Hanukkah: the Latke Mobile Menorah Vivian Reiss 2011

  • Soon your gaze passes over lobster buoys and fragmentary blenders and lengths of rope, bits of postcards, shards of seaglass and doll heads, several rusted handguns and strainers from cocktail shakers.

    Home Movie stephen hastings-king 2011

  • I used an old croquet trolley to mount the muffin tin, pots, pans, whisks, strainers, and twisted an old candelabra to make an arm held high to hold the shamas.

    Vivian Reiss: Happy Hanukkah: the Latke Mobile Menorah Vivian Reiss 2011

  • Erin Kunkel for the Wall Street Journal After the caviar is rinsed, it is placed into steel strainers.

    From Fish to Plate: How Caviar is Made 2011

  • I used an old croquet trolley to mount the muffin tin, pots, pans, whisks, strainers, and twisted an old candelabra to make an arm held high to hold the shamas.

    Vivian Reiss: Happy Hanukkah: the Latke Mobile Menorah Vivian Reiss 2011

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