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Percolator

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Noun

1. percolator

a coffeepot in which boiling water ascends through a central tube and filters back down through a basket of ground coffee beans

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Percolator

see synonyms of percolator
noun
a kind of coffeepot in which boiling water is forced up through a tube and filters down through the coffee grounds into a container

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Percolator

see synonyms of percolator
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

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Percolator

see synonyms of percolator
n.
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.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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