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plural colanders
A bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food that has been cooking in water, such as pasta. quotations examples
An electric fire came next, followed by an umbrella and then a colander. "This bowl will carry no water," he muttered. "Some loon hath pierced it with holes."
1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 67