| 单词 | grain-elevator |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgrain-elevator grain-elevator n. (see elevator n. 3a, 3b). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > harvesting equipment > [noun] > grain-elevator grain-elevator1852 the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > storage or preservation of crops > [noun] > granary corn-housec1000 meal-houseOE garnerc1175 grangec1384 girnel1452 graner1531 garnery1552 granary1570 grainel1608 corn-crib1716 golah1762 grain-elevator1852 1852 L. B. MacKinnon Atlantic & Transatlantic Sketches I. 57 To accelerate the introduction of the cargo, a grain-elevator was employed. This novel machine pumped the grain from barges,..in a continuous stream into the ship's hold... It was..accurately measured in the operation. 1873 ‘M. Twain’ & C. D. Warner Gilded Age xxii. 203 Pictures of wharves, crowded with steam boats, and of huge grain elevators on the bank. 1905 Macmillan's Mag. Nov. 47 The wheat..is warehoused ready for shipment in grain-elevators, which are large rectangular buildings of great height, consisting of vertical bins, some of which are a hundred feet in depth. 1926 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 3 Jan. 1/2 Chief of the commercial buildings contemplated is the proposed new grain elevator of the Panama-Pacific Grain Terminals Company. 1967 Canadian Ann. Rev. 1966 283 Among the buildings deferred were a large grain elevator in Prince Rupert and several proposed government buildings in Ottawa. < as lemmas |
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