[app. a. F. tamis TAMIS, assimilated to prec., perh. with the notion that it was made of that material.] A strainer.
1769. J. Skeat, Art Cookery, 27. Then strain or rub them through a tammy into another clean stewpan.
1796. Mrs. Glasse, Cookery, v. 44. Strain it off through a tammy.
1883. ‘Annie Thomas,’ Mod. Housew., 49. These vegetables can … be boiled to pulp and passed through a tammy.
attrib. 1839. Ure, Dict. Arts, 106. It must be equalised still more by passing through a tammy cloth, or a sieve.
Hence Tammy v., trans. to strain through a tammy.
1903. Daily Chron., 24 March, 8/5. Then tammy or rub through a fine sieve with a wooden spoon.
