n
(archaic) A beacon-fire.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To bore a hole of this kind (in).
n
The act of moving material using a bucket.
n
A kind of destructive fault in electrical equipment.
n
(automotive) Use of the throttle to spin the wheels of a vehicle being held stationary, causing the spinning tires to produce smoke and burn rubber.
v
To remove a dent or dents from.
v
(transitive) To remove explosive mines (landmines or naval mines) from.
v
(geology) Deepen by erosion.
v
(obsolete) To winnow out; to fan.
v
(intransitive) To move slowly or gradually; to come or go a few at a time.
v
Obsolete form of filter. [(transitive) To sort, sift, or isolate.]
v
(mining, dialect, transitive) To sift using a sieve, particularly in mining tin or silver.
n
An outward stroke; specifically, in a steam engine or other engine, a stroke in which the piston is moving toward the crankshaft.
n
The act by which something is plumed.
v
To stir up a fire to remove ash or promote burning.
v
(transitive) To deprive of pulp; to separate the pulp from.
v
To remove burrs and debris from a freshly bored hole.
v
(transitive) to sieve; sift; riddle
v
To put something through a riddle or sieve; to sieve; to sift.
n
(dentistry) A device for removing saliva from a patient's mouth during dental operations via suction.
v
(transitive) To treat or polish with sandpaper.
n
The act of excavating trenches.
v
Alternative form of searce [(obsolete) To sift (through a sieve); to bolt.]
v
To screen or sieve ore before further processing.
n
(obsolete, countable) A sieve; a strainer.
v
To strain, sift or sort using a sieve.
n
A device consisting of a stack of sieves of increasing fineness, shaken to sort gems by size.
v
To sieve or strain (something).
adv
So as to sift or sort through.
n
Obsolete spelling of sieve [A device with a mesh bottom to separate, in a granular material, larger particles from smaller ones, or to separate solid objects from a liquid.]
n
The application of a tampon or plug.
n
Alternative form of temse [(UK, obsolete or dialectal) A sieve.]
n
(UK, obsolete or dialectal) A sieve.
n
A process for refining tin by dropping it through the air while melted.
v
(medicine) To use a trepan; to trephine.
adj
(technology) (of a surface) exposed to a working fluid
v
(transitive, figuratively) To separate, sift, analyse, or test by separating items having different values.
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