sifters

"sifters" - rotary systems that lift sand onto a conveyor, allowing clean sand to fall through while capturing tar balls and debris at the rear of the machine.

BayouBuzz || New Orleans News & Networking 2010

Detective Carpenter, indeed, essayed the "sifters," but he could make little progress, and he did not see the man whose name was upon every lip, and who had just declared to the enterprising reporter who had penetrated to his fastness, "that he would never be taken alive."

The Hunted Outlaw or, Donald Morrison, the Canadian Rob Roy Anonymous

Close-twined round or triangular "sifters" were used to separate fine, fully-ground acorn meal from the coarser meal which required additional pounding.

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These sand sifters that take the oil out of the sand - you know not telling anybody what's the real deal, there's news media everywhere.

Jerry Cope: The Jaws Syndrome; Life Imitates Art On The Gulf Coast; The Crime of the Century Pt II Jerry Cope 2010

And the parallel extinction of mosasaurs and those newfound plankton-feeder fishes, Bonnerichthys with relatives, led to the mammals subsequent domination of the seas up to and including giant sifters.

Scientists Come to a Conclusion: Asteroid Killed the Dinosaurs | Universe Today 2010

These sand sifters that take the oil out of the sand - you know not telling anybody what's the real deal, there's news media everywhere.

Jerry Cope: The Jaws Syndrome; Life Imitates Art On The Gulf Coast; The Crime of the Century Pt II 2010

Now we must shift from being miners chiseling out precious nuggets of news to sharp-eyed sifters who can distinguish between precious facts and the fool's gold of cheap propaganda.

Brad Hirschfield: Obama Muslim? Are 20 Percent of Americans Stupid? 2010

Five days ago I had been returning to the camp of Boots Tarsk-Bit, coming back from a nearby village where I had gone to fetch Sa-Tarna grain, from which the girls, back at the camp, using stones and flat rocks, sifters and pans, would produce flour.

Cinnamon Roll 2010

Now we must shift from being miners chiseling out precious nuggets of news to sharp-eyed sifters who can distinguish between precious facts and the fool's gold of cheap propaganda.

Brad Hirschfield: Obama Muslim? Are 20 Percent of Americans Stupid? 2010

In addition to locating and cultivating the grain, Mr. Roberts had to figure out how the kernels were milled before industrial rollers and sifters took over the grits and cornmeal business.

One Big Table Molly O’Neill 2010