Definition of elevator

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Elevator (n.) A mechanical contrivance, usually an endless belt or chain with a series of scoops or buckets, for transferring grain to an upper loft for storage..

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Monte-acid :: Monte-acid (n.) An acid elevator, as a tube through which acid is forced to some height in a sulphuric acid manufactory..
Trunk :: Trunk (n.) A long, large box, pipe, or conductor, made of plank or metal plates, for various uses, as for conveying air to a mine or to a furnace, water to a mill, grain to an elevator, etc..
Elevator :: Elevator (n.) A muscle which serves to raise a part of the body, as the leg or the eye..
Elevatory :: Elevatory (a.) Tending to raise, or having power to elevate; as, elevatory forces..
Lift :: Lift (n.) A hoisting machine; an elevator; a dumb waiter.
Cage :: Cage (n.) The box, bucket, or inclosed platform of a lift or elevator; a cagelike structure moving in a shaft..
Elevator :: Elevator (n.) A building for elevating, storing, and discharging, grain..
Accumulator :: Accumulator (n.) An apparatus by means of which energy or power can be stored, such as the cylinder or tank for storing water for hydraulic elevators, the secondary or storage battery used for accumulating the energy of electrical charges, etc..
Car :: Car (n.) The cage of a lift or elevator.
#NAME? :: -or () A noun suffix denoting an agent or doer; as in auditor, one who hears; donor, one who gives; obligor, elevator. It is correlative to -ee. In general -or is appended to words of Latin, and -er to those of English, origin. See -er..
Hoistway :: Hoistway (n.) An opening for the hoist, or elevator, in the floor of a wareroom..
Elevator :: Elevator (n.) A cage or platform and the hoisting machinery in a hotel, warehouse, mine, etc., for conveying persons, goods, etc., to or from different floors or levels; -- called in England a lift; the cage or platform itself..
Elevatory :: Elevatory (n.) See Elevator, n. (e)..
Elevator :: Elevator (n.) A mechanical contrivance, usually an endless belt or chain with a series of scoops or buckets, for transferring grain to an upper loft for storage..
Hoistaway :: Hoistaway (n.) A mechanical lift. See Elevator.
Elevator :: Elevator (n.) An instrument for raising a depressed portion of a bone.
Teagle :: Teagle (n.) A hoisting apparatus; an elevator; a crane; a lift.
Elevator :: Elevator (n.) One who, or that which, raises or lifts up anything.
Well :: Well (v. i.) An opening through the floors of a building, as for a staircase or an elevator; a wellhole..
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