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Old built-in kitchen convenience
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dumbwaiter
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Word definitions for dumbwaiter in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1749, an article of furniture, from dumb (adj.) + waiter (apparently because it serves as a waiter but is silent). As a movable platform for passing dishes, etc., up and down from one room (especially a basement kitchen) to another, from 1847.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context obsolete English) a table or set of trays on rollers used for serving food 2 (context obsolete English) a lazy Susan 3 A small elevator used to move food etc. from one floor of a building to another.
Usage examples of dumbwaiter.
But buried in the wings of the building were large dumbwaiters used by house, senate, and gubernatorial staff to shuffle cartons of papers back and forth.
She turned and saw the Contessa wheeling herself out of the converted dumbwaiter.
Oh, for a dumbwaiter, Maia recalled sardonically, contemplating climbing all this on the way back.