percolator

Etymology

From percolate + -or.

noun

  1. A device used to brew coffee by passing boiling water through coffee grounds
    She heard the percolator bell ring. 1986, David Leavitt, The Lost Language of Cranes, paperback edition, Penguin, page 176
  2. A pharmaceutical apparatus for producing an extract from a drug by percolation.

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