DCHP-2

elevator † DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

• 1 n.

  a device, especially an endless chain of cups or buckets, used to move grain from one level to another.

• 2a n. — Esp. West

  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  elevator manager  

• 2b n.

  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: terminal elevator  

• 2c n.

  the people who own and operate a grain elevator; an elevator company.