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

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

From Literature

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

From The Wall Street Journal

“The farmers would be busy all summer, but in the winter they were looking for something to do. So the old adage in Canada is you could go to any town in rural Canada and find a grain elevator and a curling rink.”

From Los Angeles Times

He served in the Army in Korea, and after, he went to work on a farm grain elevator.

From The Wall Street Journal