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Percolator

noun

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

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"Percolator" Quotes from Famous Books

... forth her coffee percolator, which she kept hidden from her husband's search ... and we soon, by the aid of an alcohol stove, had a cup of fragrant coffee ...

— Tramping on Life - An Autobiographical Narrative • Harry Kemp

... ceased to pity and began to mock herself. For the first time she observed the waiting-room. Oh yes, the doctor's family had to have obi panels and a wide couch and an electric percolator, but any hole was good enough for sick tired common people who were nothing but the one means and excuse for the doctor's existing! No. She couldn't blame Kennicott. He was satisfied by the shabby chairs. He ...

— Main Street • Sinclair Lewis

... cleared away, the chauffeur dismissed to his quarters, a little one-roomed building separated from the cottage, and the switch was turned over which heated the automatic coffee percolator which ...

— The Man Who Knew • Edgar Wallace

Words linked to "Percolator" : percolate, coffeepot