Percolator definition
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.
noun
A thing that percolates.
noun
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.
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Noun
Singular:
percolator
Plural:
percolatorsOrigin of percolator
- From percolate +"Ž -or
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