SIEVE AND SHEARS

Domain	Definition
Literature	Sieve and Shears The device of discovering a guilty person by sieve and shears is to stick a pair of shears in a sieve, and give the sieve into the hands of two virgins, then say: "By St. Peter and St. Paul, if you [or you] have stolen the article, turn shears to the thief." Sometimes a Bible and key are employed instead, in which case the key is placed in a Bible. Sieve and Shears (See under Oracle .). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Anagrams: SIEVE AND SHEARS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-e-e-h-i-n-r-s-s-s-v"
	-2 letters: adhesiveness.
	-3 letters: adverseness, diverseness, hardinesses, headinesses, heavinesses, readinesses.
	-4 letters: aridnesses, averseness, avidnesses, dearnesses, direnesses, enravished, enravishes, hardnesses.
	-5 letters: adhesives, arsenides, deaneries, dervishes, diaereses, disserves, dissevers, evanished, evanishes, hardiness, harnessed, harnesses, headiness, heaviness, heiresses, nearsides, readiness, rednesses, reediness, reinvades, seediness, serenades, shadiness, sheerness, shivareed, shivarees, vanishers, varnished, varnishes, verandahs.
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