dumbwaiter
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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
The dumbwaiter interrupts the hit men’s mundane chatter but doesn’t veer the production off course from its clear road map to the conclusion.
From New York Times ● Jul. 9, 2021
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
Francie and Neeley went down into the cellar each evening and emptied the dumbwaiter shelves of the day’s accumulated trash.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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