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grain elevator†
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1
a specially designed building equipped to unload grain from trucks, carry it to a storage area, and, when required, transfer it to railway cars.
See: country elevator
Quotations
1877
Now, there is a thriving town . . . with a grain elevator. . . .
1963
Small railway towns dot the flat prairie landscape, each with its tall grain elevator, grimy railroad shed and general store. . . .
2
a large grain elevator which serves as a storage bin at a trans-shipping point where carloads of grain are received from country elevators.
Quotations
1882
A grain elevator having a capacity of 80,000 bushels and to cost $2,000 is to be erected at Brandon.
1958
With its bustle of busy, gaily-painted and self-important little tugs . . . and the white columns of the grain elevators rising behind, it is something good for the cruising man to sit and look at when the cruising day is done.