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terminal elevator 
a large grain eletor which serves as a storage bin at a trans-shipping point where carloads of grain are received from country elevators. [See picture at elevator.]
See also: country elevator grain elevator (def. 2)
- 1921 These two farmers' companies own and operate 632 country elevators and 4 terminal elevators at the head of the lakes.
- 1924 The establishment this year of the big terminal elevator in Edmonton is proof of this. . . .
- 1953 By 1916, the farmers of the three prairie provinces owned over 500 country elevators, in addition to terminal elevators at the head of the lakes with a capacity of 3,000,000 bushes.
- 1921 These two farmers' companies own and operate 632 country elevators and 4 terminal elevators at the head of the lakes.