"percolator" meaning in English

See percolator in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈpɜːkəleɪtə/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈpɝkəleɪtɚ/ [General-American] Forms: percolators [plural]
Etymology: From percolate + -or. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|percolate|or}} percolate + -or Head templates: {{en-noun}} percolator (plural percolators)
  1. A device used to brew coffee by passing boiling water through coffee grounds. Translations (coffee brewing device): սրճեփ (srčepʻ) (Armenian), kafaparato (Esperanto), perkolaattori (Finnish), pulputuspannu (Finnish), percolateur [masculine] (French), Perkolator [masculine] (German), síothlán (caife) [masculine] (Irish), macchinetta [feminine] (Italian), кофеқайнатқыш (kofeqainatqyş) (Kazakh), кофева́рка (kofevárka) [feminine] (Russian), perkolator [common-gender] (Swedish), кавова́рка (kavovárka) [feminine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-percolator-en-noun-cAxJ3uaH Categories (other): English terms suffixed with -or, Coffee Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -or: 47 53 Disambiguation of Coffee: 99 1 Disambiguation of 'coffee brewing device': 88 12
  2. A pharmaceutical apparatus for producing an extract from a drug by percolation.
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: perk

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