dumbwaiter
Example Sentences
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Joshua Shaw, a 27-year-old carpenter with Mavid Construction, died in June after he was struck by a dumbwaiter car while working inside one of the football stadium’s video scoreboards, WLUK-TV reported Tuesday.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 29, 2023
It's a dumbwaiter that was designed to carry these heavy glass plates.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 22, 2023
He also tinkered with a way of improving a dumbwaiter, the elevator typically used to deliver food and other goods from one floor to another.
From Salon ● Apr. 30, 2022
When it got crazy, they would put me in this dumbwaiter between levels in the restaurant and send me to this downstairs bar.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2018
He was a dumbwaiter from which dumb-diners fed.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
