percolator

(-lāt′ər)

noun

  1. a thing that percolates
  2. a kind of coffeepot in which the boiling water bubbles up through a tube and filters, through the ground coffee held in a perforated container, back to the bottom of the pot

See percolator in American Heritage Dictionary 4

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.

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