Percolator

Percolator
Percolator Per"co*la`tor, n. 1. One who, or that which, filters. ``[Tissues] act as percolators.'' --Henfrey. [1913 Webster]

2. 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. [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]

3. (Pharmacy) An apparatus for producing an extract from a drug by percolation. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.

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