soup strainer
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.63 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "In the drawers should be kept cooking knives and forks, larding and trussing needles, wooden spoons and forks; also jelly-bags, dish towels, linen soup-strainers, fish cloths, and a large piece of cheese-cloth that may be torn in convenient pieces as wanted; a roll of tape and a ball of linen twine for trussing."
- "Remove and pass through a fine mesh soup strainer into a separate handi/pan."
- "2007, G. Gopal, Delicious Dishes (Vegetarian), Sura Books, page 77, When cool, pass the cooked mixture through a soup strainer."
- "Though tawny-skinned, he easily passed himself off as white, growing a thick soup-strainer of a mustache to complete the disguise of his pale gray eyes."
- "2004, Ronald E. Yates, Finding Billy Battles, California Times Publishing, unnumbered page, Charley stroked his goatee and moustache. "I don't know. I got this here soup strainer and chin whiskers now, and I didn't in Tombstone. […] ""
- "2013, Jon Sharpe, The Trailsman, No. 376: New Mexico Madman, Penguin (New American Library, Signet), page 21, He was a thickset man with a huge soup-strainer mustache and a pockmarked face."