percolator

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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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A perforated plate or gauze partition through which a liquid, in passing, will become finely divided, or descend in a shower or mist.

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One who or that which filters.

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A form of filtering coffee-pot.

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A nearly cylindrical or slightly conical vessel with a funnel end below, used in pharmacy for preparing extracts by the process of percolation.

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One who, or that which, filters.

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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.

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An apparatus for producing an extract from a drug by percolation.

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A device used to brew coffee by passing boiling water through coffee grounds

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