Percolator

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  • noun. A coffeepot in which boiling water is forced repeatedly up through a central tube to filter back down through a basket of ground coffee beans.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. One who or that which filters.
  • noun. A form of filtering coffee-pot.
  • noun. A nearly cylindrical or slightly conical vessel with a funnel end below, used in pharmacy for preparing extracts by the process of percolation.
  • noun. A perforated plate or gauze partition through which a liquid, in passing, will become finely divided, or descend in a shower or mist.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. One who, or that which, filters.
  • noun. A type of coffee pot in which the heated water is driven by its boiling action up above a porous canister of coffee held above the level of the water in the pot, and then filters (percolates) back through the coffee thus extracting its essence.
  • noun. An apparatus for producing an extract from a drug by percolation.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A device used to brew coffee by passing boiling water through coffee grounds
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a coffeepot in which boiling water ascends through a central tube and filters back down through a basket of ground coffee beans
    • Word Usage
    "Otherwise coffee from the percolator is the best there is."
    Form
    perk  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    coffee-pot  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    anthemion  bookend  carafe  coffee-pot  coffeemaker  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    clarifier  colander  cradle  cribble  filter  
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