Dumbwaiter (Noun)
Meaning
A small elevator used to convey food (or other goods) from one floor of a building to another.
Classification
Nouns denoting man-made objects.
Examples
- The dumbwaiter in the old mansion was used to bring meals from the kitchen to the dining room on the second floor.
- In many traditional restaurants, a dumbwaiter is still used to deliver food from the kitchen to the service area.
- The butler used the dumbwaiter to discreetly send upstairs the midnight snack ordered by the family.
- At the trendy boutique hotel, a state-of-the-art dumbwaiter was installed to efficiently transport room service orders.
- In the historic hotel, the dumbwaiter was a clever space-saving solution for transporting luggage and other goods between floors.