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elevator†
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1n.
a device, especially an endless chain of cups or buckets, used to move grain from one level to another.
Quotations
1864
By means of elevators a barge can be loaded or unloaded in an hour . . .
2an. — Esp. West
a specially designed building equipped to unload grain from trucks, carry it to a storage area, and, when required, transfer it to railway cars.
Quotations
1902
At some of the stations three or four elevators were in course of erection.
1956
The mind that visioned this unending chain / Of elevators rising from the wheat / And sleepy hamlets sprawling on the plain.
2bn.
a large grain elevator which serves as a storage bin at a trans-shipping point where carloads of grain are received from country elevators.
See: terminal elevator
Quotations
1868
Another important branch runs from Komoka to Sarnia, on Lake Huron, where and at Hamilton the Company owns fine grain stores and elevators.
1922
Canada's system of handling grain through elevators is being investigated by delegates from South Africa and India.
2cn.
the people who own and operate a grain elevator; an elevator company.
Quotations
1907
Five elevators in Leduc combined to sandbag the farmer.
1958
For instance a leading elevator here handled only a few bushels of barley. Now one such elevator alone ships out more than 140,000 bushels of this crop.
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