Are you looking for the tool called a sieve?
In Kent, England, two units, both based on a type of flat basket “for measuring or carrying fruit and vegetables”¹:
1. Second Report of the Commissioners... (1820, page 32).
James Britten.
Old Country and Farming Words.
English Dialect Society, number 30.
London: Trübner and Co., 1880.
Page 170. Britten's sources were Morton's Cyclopedia of Agriculture (1863) and the Second Report.
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