transcolate

English

Etymology

From trans- + Latin colare, colatum (“to filter, to strain”).

Verb

transcolate (third-person singular simple present transcolates, present participle transcolating, simple past and past participle transcolated)

(obsolete, transitive) To strain, as if through a sieve.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for transcolate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

translocate

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