Grain Elevator Definition

noun
A tall warehouse, often cylindrical, for collecting, storing, and discharging grain.
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(agriculture, North America) A large structure for the storage of grain. It is more specialized than a regular granary in that in uses an elevating mechanism to hold the grain in one of many different bins, and that it it designed to fill large trucks and train cars for shipping grain in bulk.

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Noun

Singular:
grain elevator
Plural:
grain-elevators

Grain Elevator Sentence Examples

  • The dock is provided with railways and machinery for facilitating traffic, including a large grain elevator.

  • The first grain elevator built in Boston, and one of the first in the world, was erected in 1843, when Massachusetts sent Indian corn to Ireland.

  • Here in 1843 Joseph Dart erected the first grain elevator ever constructed.

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