Colander [noun]

Put a sieve or colander over a large bowl and spread a square of cheese cloth over the sieve.

All oysters, when cooked in any way, should be first put in a colander and the juice allowed to drain off, then strain the juice.

When thoroughly soft, drain the water from the peas and put them through a colander.

Force the corn through a colander or a sieve, and add the purée to the white sauce.

This was done by dipping the colander up and down in a pan of clear cold water.

Next she put them in the colander, and then dipped the colander up and down in a pan of clear cold water several times.

The red currants Adelaide removed from their stems and put in the colander to be thoroughly washed.

Adelaide picked the blackberries very carefully into the colander.

The wild grapes Adelaide poured into the colander, dipped it up and down several times in cold water and stood it to drain.

Adelaide put them in the colander, dipped it up and down in a pan of clear cold water, and stood it aside to drain.