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Percolator   Listen
noun
Percolator  n.  
1.
One who, or that which, filters. "(Tissues) act as percolators."
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.
3.
(Pharmacy) An apparatus for producing an extract from a drug by percolation.





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"Percolator" Quotes from Famous Books



... blindly toward the bedroom door. Jim sat staring after her, puzzled at first, then with the red blood surging into his face. He dropped his cigarette and his newspaper, and for perhaps three minutes there was no sound in the apartment but the coffee bubbling in the percolator, and the occasional ...
— The Story Of Julia Page - Works of Kathleen Norris, Volume V. • Kathleen Norris
... tucked away the ten-dollar bill he had taken from his waistcoat pocket, and Flachs seized the coffee percolator with ...
— Abe and Mawruss - Being Further Adventures of Potash and Perlmutter • Montague Glass


Words linked to "Percolator" :   coffeepot, percolate


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