grain elevator
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of grain elevator
First recorded in 1850–55
Example Sentences
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With a population of about 2,400, it could pass for any number of prairie towns: modest houses and churches, mostly boarded-up storefronts, and a grain elevator towering above everything.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
He served in the Army in Korea, and after, he went to work on a farm grain elevator.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2025
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
But that year, the price the grain elevator co-op paid for a bushel of corn was only about $1.45.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
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