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grain elevator † 

• 1 a specially designed building equipped to unload grain from trucks, carry it to a storage area, and, when required, transfer it to railway cars.

  See also: country elevator  

  • 1877  Now, there is a thriving town . . . with a grain elevator. . . .
  • 1963  Small railway towns dot the flat prairie landscape, each with its tall grain elevator, grimy railroad shed and general store. . . .

• 2 a large grain elevator which serves as a storage bin at a trans-shipping point where carloads of grain are received from country elevators.

  See also: country elevator  terminal elevator  

  • 1882  A grain elevator having a capacity of 80,000 bushels and to cost $2,000 is to be erected at Brandon.
  • 1958  With its bustle of busy, gaily-painted and self-important little tugs . . . and the white columns of the grain elevators rising behind, it is something good for the cruising man to sit and look at when the cruising day is done.