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percolator

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Noun
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per=co=la=tor

CIDE DICTIONARY

percolatorn. 
  •  One who, or that which, filters.  Henfrey.  [1913 Webster]
  •  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.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  •  An apparatus for producing an extract from a drug by percolation.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

percolator, n. a machine for making coffee by circulating boiling water through ground beans.

THESAURUS

percolator

clarifier, colander, cradle, cribble, filter, lixiviator, purifier, refiner, refinery, riddle, rocker, screen, sieve, sifter, strainer, winnow, winnowing basket, winnowing fan, winnowing machine

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