dumbwaiter
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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
Occasionally, your group will be divided, communicating only by a makeshift dumbwaiter in the byzantine rooms that create the sensation of being in a maze-like mansion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2023
It's a dumbwaiter that was designed to carry these heavy glass plates.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 22, 2023
And yet when I finally, as an adult, had a dumbwaiter shaft in my old, rented house, I found it scary, drafty.
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2022
Then I send down the dumbwaiter and raise the trays one by one.
From "Every Day" by David Levithan
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