Crossword clues for percolator
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Percolator \Per"co*la`tor\, n.
One who, or that which, filters. ``[Tissues] act as percolators.''
--Henfrey.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.
(Pharmacy) An apparatus for producing an extract from a drug by percolation.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1795, agent noun in Latin form from percolate. Slang meaning "house party" is recorded from 1946.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A device used to brew coffee by passing boiling water through coffee grounds 2 A pharmaceutical apparatus for producing an extract from a drug by percolation.
WordNet
n. a coffeepot in which boiling water ascends through a central tube and filters back down through a basket of ground coffee beans
Usage examples of "percolator".
The ambulance that hauled him to hospital babbled beneath its wailing like his long-dead baby sister while a blue-zillion rusty percolators whooped in aromatic chorus for the conveyence of his soul.
At that very moment the water that was boiling in the coffee percolator made a loud perking sound.
At that crucial instant the coffee percolator made a truly obscene gurgling sound.
Maigret had noticed on coming in was the table in the center of the room, on which stood an electric percolator, a cup with a little coffee left in it, a sugar bowl, and a bottle of brandy.
I went out in the galley and put some water on to heat in the big electric percolator, and then examined my face in the bathroom mirror.
I was measuring coffee into the percolator when the idea began to take form.
Not toward Alva, not toward her father and mother and brother, did Bethel feel guilty, but toward that shaggy house dog, Charley Hatch, who had been compelled by family deficits to give up his dreams of osteopathy for a job in the sales department of the Flamolio Percolator Corporation.
Their kitchen was a percolator, a two-burner electric stove, and a pint-sized electric icebox in the bathroom, and their dining-room did not for the moment exist, since it was a folding card-table stowed under the bed.
Rube, although there was no sign that the dented electric percolator was in use.
Jamie touched the percolator in search of coffee, but it was completely cold.
A coffee-shop cluttered with percolators and the more intricate jugs that undergraduates still evidently cultivated.
At some point the percolator had started perking, so Cate put some sugar in one of the polystyrene cups and poured coffee over it.
Serena plugged in the percolator as she gestured toward the breakfast bar with her free hand.
Sun was streaming into the kitchen, the percolator was belching on the side, the smell of toast and melted butter filtering out of the kitchen window.
Then she put an old fashioned percolator coffeepot on the gas range.