percolator
(noun) a coffeepot in which boiling water ascends through a central tube and filters back down through a basket of ground coffee beans
Source: WordNet® 3.1
percolator (plural percolators)
A device used to brew coffee by passing boiling water through coffee grounds
A pharmaceutical apparatus for producing an extract from a drug by percolation.
• procaterol
Source: Wiktionary
Per"co*la`tor, n.
Definition: One who, or that which, filters. "[Tissues] act as percolators." Henfrey.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
27 February 2025
(verb) reach the summit (of a mountain); “They breasted the mountain”; “Many mountaineers go up Mt. Everest but not all summit”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
