Meaning & use
Cribble
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A coarse sieve used for separating fine material from coarse, such as sifting grain or sand.
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The miller passed the grain through a cribble to remove the husks.
Archaeologists used a cribble to sift soil from the dig site for artifacts.
A note on using this word
A largely archaic English word, now mostly encountered in historical or dialect texts and occasionally as a verb meaning 'to sift.'
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