sile-clout, -dish
[f. sile n.2 or v.2]
(See quots.)
| 1668 Markham's Eng. Housew. ii. vi. 144 After your Milk is come home, you shall..strain it from all unclean things through a neat and sweet kept Syledish. 1691 Ray N.C. Words 67 A Sile-dish, a straining or cleansing Dish. 1876 F. K. Robinson Whitby Gloss., Sile-clout, the cloth stretched over the hole of the milk-strainer. |