grain elevator

noun

grain elevator

a machine for raising grain to a higher level, esp one having an endless belt fitted with scoops

First recorded in 1850–55

With the development of Buffalo was identified the rise of lake navigation and the grain elevator.

Complaint against excessive allowances to favored grain elevator owners, was common all through the West for years.

Because of this its functions are marked as clearly upon it as those of a grain elevator, a steamship or a piano.

The greatest grain elevator in the world was destroyed by a dust explosion.

The village of Ordway had been moved away, nothing remained but the grain elevator.

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