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To: Red Badger
elutriate - To purify or separate by washing and straining or decanting.

So if I boil some spaghetti and dump it into a colander I'm elutriating. Cool!

36 posted on 05/08/2007 12:55:47 PM PDT by pa_dweller (South of the border - a phrase fast losing its meaning)
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To: pa_dweller

Tonight, try this at home:

Honey, would you plese come and elutriate the pasta while I stir the sauce?.......


40 posted on 05/08/2007 1:00:44 PM PDT by Red Badger (My gerund got caught in my diphthong, and now I have a dangling participle...............)
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