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  • noun A person who, or device that, filters

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Examples

  • Bore a hole in the lower part of the cask with a gimlet, receiving the liquid stream which follows in the bottle and filterer, which is placed in a tub or basin.

    The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861

  • Bore a hole in the lower part of the cask with a gimlet, receiving the liquid stream which follows in the bottle and filterer, which is placed in a tub or basin.

    The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861

  • Since the late 1800's, menhaden has been a commodity, not wildlife, valued more as an ingredient for gear lubricant and lipstick than for its crucial role as water filterer and food for bigger Atlantic and Gulf coast fish.

    Peter Hanlon: Little Fish, Big Help Peter Hanlon 2011

  • Looks like they could have done with a filterer in your case too.

    apophenia » Blog Archive » spectacle at Web2.0 Expo… from my perspective 2009

  • But by expressly declining to do this, and leaving the meaning of “objectionable” to reflect whatever the filterer objects to, the case appears to open up the prospect of unexpected kinds of objections leading to filtering being used for offensive as distinct from purely defensive purposes — perhaps even protecting kinds of filtering that consumers find so offensive that they might consider the filtering itself to be malicious.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Distributor of Software That Blocks (Alleged) Adware and Malware Immune Under 47 U.S.C. § 230 from Suit by Company Whose Software Was Blocked: 2009

  • Put a thick layer of pounded charcoal, (say six inches,) at the bottom of a large earthen flower-pot; over this, lay a bed of fine sand, which has been washed, (to prevent its giving a taste to the water;) pour the water in the filterer and put a large stone pitcher under to receive it.

    Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers Elizabeth E. Lea

  • In the first place, it is essential that the coffee be of the finest quality obtainable; secondly, better results are obtained by using the French filterer, or coffee bag.

    All About Coffee 1909

  • "There's only water in the tap; the filterer is broke."

    A Crooked Path A Novel Mrs. Alexander 1863

  • Since the late 1800's, menhaden has been a commodity, not wildlife, valued more as an ingredient for gear lubricant and lipstick than for its crucial role as water filterer and food for bigger Atlantic and Gulf coast fish.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Peter Hanlon 2011

  • Of food and water he had a sufficiency, the filterer and a bread-bag being quite near him, and he helped himself often from the first, in particular; a single mouthful of the ship's biscuit commonly proving more than he could swallow, even after it was softened in the water.

    The Crater James Fenimore Cooper 1820

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