sifter

noun

1. A tool for sifting, especially one for powdered cooking ingredients.

   “Near-synonym: sieve”

2. (rare)One who sifts.

   “He was employed as a sifter.”

3. Any lamellirostral bird, as a duck or goose, so called because it sifts or strains its food from the water and mud by means of the lamellae of the beak.