dumbwaiter

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According to OSHA, the companies’ employees and subcontractors were exposed to “pinch-point hazards” associated with the dumbwaiter and didn’t ensure employees and contractors were qualified to operate the device.

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

And yet when I finally, as an adult, had a dumbwaiter shaft in my old, rented house, I found it scary, drafty.

From Salon • Jul. 13, 2022

I rush from the room and hoist myself into the dumbwaiter.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin