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grain elevator
grain elevator
noun
- a machine for raising grain to a higher level, esp one having an endless belt fitted with scoops
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Word History and Origins
Origin of grain elevator1
First recorded in 1850–55
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Example Sentences
With the development of Buffalo was identified the rise of lake navigation and the grain elevator.
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Complaint against excessive allowances to favored grain elevator owners, was common all through the West for years.
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Because of this its functions are marked as clearly upon it as those of a grain elevator, a steamship or a piano.
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The greatest grain elevator in the world was destroyed by a dust explosion.
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The village of Ordway had been moved away, nothing remained but the grain elevator.
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