"Silex" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Brand name.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Silexes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "Silex (plural Silexes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1965, Stewardsman, United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel, page 31:",
          "text": "The Navy uses several types of coffee makers – urns, silexes, and percolators. Each type requires special care in making good coffee.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1968, The History of the Chaplain Corps, United States Navy, United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel, page 143:",
          "text": "Remembering my daily habits, Papa-san brewed the coffee and before I had completed a local phone call, he was serving it piping hot from the Silex, still grinning as he thought of other days of coffee-making.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A vacuum coffee maker."
      ],
      "id": "en-Silex-en-noun-i~lSzMbA",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dated) A vacuum coffee maker."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Silex"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Brand name.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Silexes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Silex (plural Silexes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English dated terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English genericized trademarks",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1965, Stewardsman, United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel, page 31:",
          "text": "The Navy uses several types of coffee makers – urns, silexes, and percolators. Each type requires special care in making good coffee.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1968, The History of the Chaplain Corps, United States Navy, United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel, page 143:",
          "text": "Remembering my daily habits, Papa-san brewed the coffee and before I had completed a local phone call, he was serving it piping hot from the Silex, still grinning as he thought of other days of coffee-making.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A vacuum coffee maker."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dated) A vacuum coffee maker."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Silex"
}