sifter /ˈsɪftɚ/ noun3 •A tool for sifting, especially one for powdered cooking ingredients. •(rare) One who sifts.He was employed as a sifter. •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. formssifters