percolator
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• noun
A type of pot used for brewing coffee by continually cycling the boiling or nearly boiling water up through a vertical tube and down through a perforated basket of coffee grounds.
"Every morning at the cabin, she brewed a rich pot of coffee in an old stovetop percolator."
A cylindrical or conical vessel used by pharmacists and chemists to extract soluble constituents from a powdered substance by allowing a liquid solvent to trickle slowly through it.
"The herbalist packed the dried roots tightly into the glass percolator to prepare a concentrated tincture."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Coined in the early 19th century from the verb 'percolate' plus the agent suffix '-or', ultimately deriving from Latin 'percolare', meaning 'to strain through' (from 'per-', through, and 'colare', to strain).