The perforations, as shown in the point P, form a strainer which allows the water to enter the pipe but prevents the sand from filling the opening.
If the small particles of earth clog the strainer the pump will “work hard” and yield only a portion of the water the soil is capable of giving when the strainer is clear.
The perforations act as a strainer that keeps out all but the fine particles which will pass the pump valves.
Put a large handful of salt into a fish kettle with cold water, lay the turbot on a fish strainer and put it in.
If you strain it while it is hot, let the tammis or napkin be previously soaked in cold water; the coldness of the strainer will tend to coagulate the fat, and only suffer the pure broth to pass through.
A wire strainer through which the milk has to pass, and where the milk is often stirred by the finger of the milker to make it pass through more rapidly, is in no sense as satisfactory as cheesecloth.
The strainer for a milk-pail is preferably made of cheesecloth, since this can always be easily boiled between milkings, and so sterilized.
In this case, however, the stream may freeze down to the level of the strainer and even around the strainer, so that the supply of water in winter would be cut off.
Some varieties have a convex, coarse strainerin the bottom, to keep the grounds from clogging the fine strainer.
When coffee is made in a percolator, or a coffee-pot with a strainer at the top, one-third at least should be added to the usual proportion of coffee; three ounces to a quart makes a good coffee by this method.
Then a coarse strainer is placed over the grounds, the boiling water is poured in, and allowed to drip slowly through the coffee into the lower receptacle.
Place the coarse strainer on top, and then add half a cupful of cold water, pouring it in by tablespoonfuls.
Connect fuel pipe to fuel strainer nipple by tightening the union nut and also the strainer union nut on bowl nipple.
Install one cork washer in bottom of cap, set strainer screen element in place, and locate the other cork washer over screen element.
Strainer coupling nut can now be tightened on bowl nipple.
Pick over the rice, and wash by putting in a strainer and shaking in a pan of water.
Wash rice by putting it in a strainer and shaking in a pan of water.
This may be easily done by putting in a strainerand shaking in a pan of cold water.
Allow this distillate to drain out thoroughly before replacing the plug with strainer attached.
A strainer is fitted at each end of the crank-case, through which the oil is drawn by separate pumps and returned to the sump.
It is also advisable to squirt distillate up into the case through the opening where the strainer has been removed.
An external oil strainer is provided, which is removable in a few minutes' time without the loss of any oil.
The oil is first drawn from the strainer in oil sump to the long jacket around the intake manifold, then forced to the main distributor pipe in crank-case, which leads to all main bearings.
This strainer must catch all water and other impurities in the gasoline.
The water and oil pumps, carburetors, magnetos, oil straineror other parts can be removed without disturbing other parts.
This strainer should be removed after every five to eight hours running of the engine and cleaned thoroughly with gasoline.
When enough of the light elements have been eliminated the residue is drawn off, passed through a strainer to free it from grit and earthy matters, and is afterwards cooled to separate the wax from it.
An extremely large strainer and dirt trap is located in the center and lowest point of the case, which is easily removed from the outside without disturbing the oil pump or any working parts.
The oil is carried in the sump, from where it is taken by the oil circulating pump through a strainer and forced through a header, extending the full length of the crank-case, and distributed to the main bearings.
The oil is drawn from the strainer located at the lowest portion of the lower crank-case, forced around the main intake manifold oil jacket.
If the stream coming out of the pipe is not the full size of the orifice it is an indication that the pipe is clogged with dirt or that there is an accumulation of rust, scale, or lint in the strainer screens of the filter.
Then mix a teaspoonful of saffron in the liquid, pass through a strainer into a soup tureen.
Put through a strainer into another saucepan, boil up again, skim, and use when required.
When the cows were all milked, Uncle John poured the milk through the strainer into the big cans and took it out to the spring-house to set it, so that the cream would come on it.
And so he milked all the cows, one after the other, and when both the pails were full, he took them to the milk-room and poured the milk through a strainer into a big can.
You can cold-dip the product without removing it from the colander, strainer or steamer in which it is steamed.
The above are the net weights of meats only that have been drained over a strainer with a wire bottom of ½ inch mesh.
In canning without the sugar sirup, you would follow these directions: Cull, stem or seed, and clean fruit by placing in a strainer and pouring water over it until clean.
Pour water through the strainer until the water comes through clear.
The juice may be pressed from the fruit left in the strainer and used in marmalade or for a second-quality jelly.
Put a hair sieve or strainer over a large bowl; over this spread a double square of cheese cloth.
He raised his Athenian eyebrows, and she realized what a mistake she had made in not bringing the lethal tea-strainer along.
Failure to use the strainer results in endless trouble in the field from clogged nozzles.
Strain both the lime milk and the copper sulphate or bluestone solution through a brass strainer of 18 meshes per inch and dilute each with half the water before mixing together.
The rest of it goes in the blood to another strainer called the kidneys, passes through this as urine, and is carried away from the body as the waste water from the bathtub and the sink is carried away from a house.
That the skin is a strainer, you already know; for you know how the skin lets out the waste water in perspiration, or sweat, and how important it is that we keep the little holes of the strainer open and clean.
The strainer won't let the poison out, and so it will stay inside your body.
Then the coffee, which must be finely ground, is put in, and another strainer is placed on the top of the rod.
The advantage of the two strainers is, that the one coming next to the fine strainer prevents the grounds from filling up the fine holes, and so the coffee is clear,--a grand desideratum.
Insufficient water supply due to tank valve partly closed, strainer stopped up or tank hose kinked, injector tubes out of line, limed up, or delivery tube cut, or wet steam from the throttle.
Would next see that no obstruction was in the feed pipe or strainer and that the feed pipe was free from leaks, and that the injector was getting a sufficient supply of steam.
This may be caused by the strainer becoming clogged with ice or dirt, preventing air entering the cylinder.
In this pipe is found a combined strainer and check valve with a choke fitting and cut-out cock, which when open forms a connection between the brake pipe and the main reservoir.
He still held in his hand the old tea-strainer which he had been grasping when they rescued him; he had held on to it convulsively all the time.
But suddenly he came right in, laid the tea- strainer in Pelle's lap and looked at him.
Then the coffee, which must be finely-ground, is put in, and another strainer is placed at the top of the rod.
To the tomato add the soda; stir well, and rub through a strainer that is fine enough to keep back the seeds.
Fill the jars with fruit, and fill up to the brim with syrup, using a small strainer in the tunnel, that the syrup may look clear.
Add the cream, rub through a strainer into the freezer, and freeze.
The advantage of the two extra strainers is that the one coming next to the fine strainer prevents the grounds from filling up the fine holes, and so the coffee is clear, and made more easily.
One strainer that will fit on to one of the cast-iron pots.
Dip them, a quart or more at a time, into a strainer cloth, and squeeze out all the juice.
Put in a strainer cloth and get out all the juice.
The upper strainer causes the boiling water to fall on the coffee like rain.
Season to taste with salt and pepper, and rub through a strainer fine enough to keep back the seeds.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "strainer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
