Spirits & Distilling

Hellenistic still

From The Oxford Companion to Spirits & Cocktails

is an ancient form of pot still in which alcohol vapor condenses on the inner surface of a large concave or pointed head and runs down into a circular gutter before draining through a pipe into a receiver. See distillation, history.

This definition is from The Oxford Companion to Spirits & Cocktails, edited by David Wondrich (Editor-in-Chief) and Noah Rothbaum (Associate Editor).