grain elevator

American  

noun

1. elevator.

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grain elevator British  

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of grain elevator

First recorded in 1850–55

Example Sentences

Pellets are fed back into the reactor with a simple grain elevator, and the reactor itself has no moving parts.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

At the local grain elevator, Guinnip is offered about $10 a bushel for his soybeans.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 15, 2026

Even so, the attacks damaged a grain elevator and silos, a shipping company office and a marine terminal, the office of the general prosecutor said.

From New York Times • Aug. 2, 2023

Corn kernels are dumped into a grain elevator during a harvest on a farm near Dixon, Nebraska, U.S.,

From Reuters • Aug. 8, 2022

Why, it would have taken a wagon scale to weigh her and two trips to the grain elevator to get her there.”

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck