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colander

noun as in strainer

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Using a colander or other method of choice, shake off excess flour-cornmeal before lowering okra into hot oil.

From Salon

If you don't have access to eclipse glasses, you can create a simple pinhole camera with just two sheets of cardboard or even use a colander to project the Sun's image safely onto the ground.

From BBC

Farther to the east, at one point it seemed as if the Mojave Desert was as hole-pocked as a colander.

Water flows through this rock as it does through a colander in your kitchen sink.

Holding up a colander can also project the partial eclipse onto the ground, as can looking at sunlight dappling through a tree’s leaves, or through your fingers aligned perpendicularly.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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