grain elevator
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of grain elevator
First recorded in 1850–55
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
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