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Webster 1913 Edition
Percolator
Per′co-laˊtor
,Noun.
1.
One who, or that which, filters.
“[Tissues] act as percolators.” Henfrey.
Definition 2024
percolator
percolator
English
Noun
percolator (plural percolators)
- A device used to brew coffee by passing boiling water through coffee grounds
- 1986, David Leavitt, The Lost Language of Cranes, Penguin, paperback edition, page 176
- She heard the percolator bell ring.
- 1986, David Leavitt, The Lost Language of Cranes, Penguin, paperback edition, page 176
- A pharmaceutical apparatus for producing an extract from a drug by percolation.
Translations
coffee brewing device
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