Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun 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.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A perforated plate or gauze partition through which a liquid, in passing, will become finely divided, or descend in a shower or mist.
- noun One who or that which filters.
- noun A form of filtering coffee-pot.
- noun A nearly cylindrical or slightly conical vessel with a funnel end below, used in pharmacy for preparing extracts by the process of percolation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, filters.
- noun 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.
- noun (Pharmacy) An apparatus for producing an extract from a drug by percolation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A device used to brew
coffee by passing boiling water through coffee grounds
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a coffeepot in which boiling water ascends through a central tube and filters back down through a basket of ground coffee beans
Etymologies
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Examples
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Otherwise coffee from the percolator is the best there is.
What is the best coffee maker, percolator, for camping? 2009
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Otherwise coffee from the percolator is the best there is.
What is the best coffee maker, percolator, for camping? 2009
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For general home use, a device that employs filter paper or filter cloth is best; for the epicure an improved porcelain French percolator (drip pot) or an improved cloth filter will yield the utmost of coffee's delights.
All About Coffee 1909
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Del I have used your method many times when I didn't take a percolator which is inconvienant not so much due to weight as bulk.
What is the best coffee maker, percolator, for camping? 2009
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Del I have used your method many times when I didn't take a percolator which is inconvienant not so much due to weight as bulk.
What is the best coffee maker, percolator, for camping? 2009
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~You'll need a traditional percolator which is made of 4 parts.
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~You'll need a traditional percolator which is made of 4 parts.
Archive 2006-08-01 2006
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Ive noticed this kind of percolator takes the longest.. but yes making it the previous nite is a good idea.
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In 1827, Nicholas Felix Durant, a manufacturer of Chalons-sur-Marne, was granted a French patent on a "percolator" employing, for the first time, an inner tube to raise the boiling water for spraying over the ground coffee.
All About Coffee 1909
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After this, there were many "percolator" patents in France, England, and the United States, some of which were for improved forms of the original drip method of the De Belloy device.
All About Coffee 1909
marky commented on the word percolator
it's actually a dance.
need a new definition.
June 20, 2011