Usage examples (6)

• I will personally be growing my soup-strainer out for this important cause.
• Skim occasionally, and after two hours add two tablespoons of sherry; then strain through fine soup-strainer or cheese-cloth.
• "If he uses that damned shrubbery as soup-strainer to-night, I'll slosh him with a fork!"
• His ragged red mustache, ordinarily of the soup-strainer pattern, he had trimmed, waxed, and turned up at each end; the barber put much pomade on his hair and combed it in a