dumbwaiter
Example Sentences
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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
He also tinkered with a way of improving a dumbwaiter, the elevator typically used to deliver food and other goods from one floor to another.
From Salon ● Apr. 30, 2022
On the upstairs landing we discover something called a dumbwaiter, which, upon inspection, is not dumb at all.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
