percolator

percolator [pur-kuh-ley-ter] ExamplesWord Origin noun

1. a kind of coffeepot in which boiling water in a repeated process is forced up a hollow stem, filters down through ground coffee in a sievelike container, and returns to the pot below.
2. something that percolates.

Origin of percolator First recorded in 1835–45; percolate + -or2 Examples from the Web for percolator Historical Examples of percolator

In this treatise he describes and illustrates the Rumford percolator.

All About Coffee

William H. Ukers

This coffee that I’ve been making in the percolator is all ready, Bettina!

A Thousand Ways to Please a Husband

Louise Bennett Weaver

Bob can make the coffee in the percolator in a little while, when we’re ready.

A Thousand Ways to Please a Husband

Louise Bennett Weaver

In the dining-room is an electric chafing dish and a percolator.

Inventors at Work

George Iles

(Troy) of ginger in fine powder into a percolator, and pour on it 12 ounces (old measure) of pure ether.

Cooley’s Cyclopdia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades…, Sixth Edition, Volume I

Arnold Cooley

British Dictionary definitions for percolator percolator noun

1. a kind of coffeepot in which boiling water is forced up through a tube and filters down through the coffee grounds into a container

Word Origin and History for percolator n.

1795, agent noun in Latin form from percolate. Slang meaning “house party” is recorded from 1946.