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UK
/dˈʌmweɪtɐ/
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NOUN
- a small elevator used to convey food (or other goods) from one floor of a building to another
How To Use dumbwaiter In A Sentence
- These dumbwaiters are designed much like a standard elevator, with built-in safety brakes and safety interlocks that prevent operation if any door is open.
- This device is more commonly known as the dumbwaiter, and later became an important means of delivering garbage to the basement of apartment buildings built in the early 1900s. Undefined
- The food ordered from behind the counter comes up from the kitchen below on a dumbwaiter, which is very exciting for anyone who grew up watching Webster (but wasn‘t rich enough to have an actualdumbwaiter themselves). Takoyaki Comes to Midtown @ the 47th St. Japanese Convenience Store & Deli | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan
- If he sneaks in the back door or tazes the librarian or shinnies up a dumbwaiter shaft - that's one thing. PhiloBiblos
- But both, to gauge by the squalid setting, by the way they spring to attention at the sounding of a disembodied voice that issues from the dumbwaiter, are low men on the totem pole. James Scarborough: Hollywood Fringe: The Dumb Waiter, Vespertine Productions & Girl Band in the Men's Room, Dirty Blonde Productions
- They swept up from the main gallery on the great stairs, with a second prong up the middle west servants' stairs and a flanking attack through the dumbwaiter in the music library.
- Which appears magically from a dumbwaiter from the Lower Caverns where all the slutty kitchen women live. You'll Never Look at Pern the same way again
- As Mr. Tarrant told me in a 2007 interview, he heard, through a dumbwaiter door to the galley, Callaghan speaking in low, grave tones about the battle plan he would use that night off Guadalcanal. The Things They Buried
- The orders they receive, however, are for food via a dumbwaiter sent from the defunct restaurant above.
- Casey: In that kitchen, some of the equipment worked, some of it didn't and we had to use the dumbwaiter. Top Chef's Casey: My Dish Wasn't Inedible