grain elevator

noun

: a building for elevating, storing, discharging, and sometimes processing grain

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Louis Dreyfus has a major plant in Claypool and will provide soybeans for that operation through the grain elevator at the port. Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 24 June 2025 This morning, a semi will haul his feed to a nearby grain elevator. Kirk Siegler, NPR, 14 Mar. 2025 Sitting in his idling pickup one afternoon, Sherlock watched as a Canadian Pacific train rumbled by the grain elevator in the small town of Wimbledon. Kirk Siegler, NPR, 14 Mar. 2025 Acoustic Sounds occupies a hodgepodge of squat industrial buildings in Salina, a city of about 50,000 near the geographic center of the 48 contiguous states, where grain elevators and a gigantic frozen pizza plant jut out from the flat plains landscape. Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 7 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for grain elevator

Word History

First Known Use

1852, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of grain elevator was in 1852

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“Grain elevator.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grain%20elevator. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.

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