sieve

Yoakam’s “Greater Bakersfield” is the sieve through which much of “Brighter Days” filtered.

They also relied on panning - the washing of sediment through a sieve so the gold settles at the bottom.

For decades, I’ve heard that the border is little better than a sieve through which millions of migrants easily pass.

Then the array of detached coils, capacitors, pins and transistors are sieved, sorted, sliced and diced as they move along a conveyor belt.

"It's tedious work. We dig a pit, pull out chunks of soil and rock, wash them in a sieve and then carefully sift through thousands of dried, tiny stones to look for diamonds," he said.