Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
colander .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A strainer. See
colander .
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- noun a
colander
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun bowl-shaped strainer; used to wash or drain foods
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Examples
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September 6, 2008 at 3:04 pm o, an im shure u luks luverly wit teh CHRG, possum-print duk taype & a metal kichen cullender awn ur hed fer de splort-prebention. i hopez dey iz all in teh purrty pastel-colorz!
De otherz asleep, now I can escape! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Naow aye haz a CHRG, possum-print duk taype & a metal kichen cullender awn meh hed fer de splort-prebention!
De otherz asleep, now I can escape! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Nex yew noaz, yule bii addin bungii kordz tu teh cullender iffin yoar nawt karefull….
De otherz asleep, now I can escape! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Den, B4 yew putz awn the Snorgul-snorkul, yew muss putz CHRGwDOI awn unner 50′s BC, rap tilelii wif ducky-taep adn den ware teh metel kichen cullender
De otherz asleep, now I can escape! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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After being shelled, wash them, drain them in a cullender, put them on, in plenty of boiling water, with a teaspoonful of salt; boil them till they become tender, which, if young, will be less than half an hour; if old, they will require more than an hour.
A Poetical Cook-Book Maria J. Moss
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Pick two pounds of currants very clean, and wash them, draining them through a cullender.
A Poetical Cook-Book Maria J. Moss
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Then being between hot and cold, take it into molds of deep hoops, bind them about with packthred, and being cold, take them out and put them into souce drink made of boil'd oatmeal ground or beaten, and bran boil'd in fair water; being cold, strain it thorow a cullender into the tub or earthen pot, put salt into it, and close up the vessel close from the air.
The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery Robert May
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Drain them in a cullender, and put them into a dish, with a slice of fresh butter in it.
A Poetical Cook-Book Maria J. Moss
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A servant brought a brass basin, which was like an immense wash-bowl with a cullender in it turned upside down: we washed our hands over this, water being poured over them from a large coffee-pot (I should call it) with an unusually long nose, and wiped our hands on handsome towels embroidered at the ends with gold thread.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876 Various
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"Oh, never mind," laughed the doctor, piling the dusty dishes in a pan for washing, "we'll just set the crockery up in this cullender to drain dry."
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 Various
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