fish strainer

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English

Noun

fish strainer (plural fish strainers)

  1. A colander with handles, for taking fish from a boiler.
  2. A perforated earthenware slab at the bottom of a dish, to drain the water from a boiled fish.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for fish strainer”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)