percolator

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English

Etymology

From percolate +‎ -or.

Pronunciation

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Noun

percolator (plural percolators)

English Wikipedia has an article on:

percolator

A device used to brew coffee by passing boiling water through coffee grounds
- 1986, David Leavitt, The Lost Language of Cranes, Penguin, paperback edition, page 176
  She heard the percolator bell ring.
A pharmaceutical apparatus for producing an extract from a drug by percolation.

Derived terms

perk

Translations

coffee brewing device

Armenian: սրճեփ (hy) (srčepʻ)
Finnish: perkolaattori (fi), pulputuspannu
French: percolateur (fr) m
Irish: síothlán caife m
(deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
Italian: macchinetta (it) f
Russian: кофева́рка (ru) f (kofevárka)
Swedish: kaffepumpa (sv) c

Anagrams

procaterol

Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) percōlātor

second/third-person singular future passive imperative of percōlō

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