dumbwaiter

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Another convenient feature is a vertical dumbwaiter built into a cabinet to easily transport groceries from the garage on the lower level to the kitchen on the main level.

From Washington Post

Instead of hydraulics in the floor that permit characters to descend into hell, the journey is made via a compartment upstage that opens and closes like a restaurant dumbwaiter.

From Washington Post

The grave confines of the men’s basement room seem to suggest a space where anything can happen — from a murder to a series of communications delivered by a dumbwaiter.

From New York Times

Its lofty isolation inspired Eddy to build the counterweight cable-car system that sent two little wooden cars up and down “like a robber baron’s extravagant dumbwaiter,” wrote Jim Dawson in his book about Angels Flight.

From Los Angeles Times

They also installed a dumbwaiter in the kitchen — another idea that Pushelberg was originally skeptical of.

From New York Times