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Meanings of grain elevator in English

A silo used for storing wheat, corn or other grain.

Usage of grain elevator in English
1
Here in 1843 Joseph Dart erected the first grain elevator ever constructed.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Bréquigny, Louis George...
2
On a siding near the station a huge grain elevator was rising.
The Grafters
3
J.J. looked out at the little town, grain elevator, and winding river.
The man who ate the 747
4
A siren sounded back through the woods, somewhere around the grain elevator.
Summer of Night
5
He lived in a shanty behind the grain elevator, and he came to
The Rover Boys on the Great Lakes; Or, The Secret of the Island ...
6
He was from a prominent grain elevator family-anda big Randallite.
Super
7
People were going hungry - and that's the city's largest grain elevator right there.
News.com.au
8
The only building in town with a touch of picturesqueness was the grain elevator.
Animal Heroes
9
I bet we're even higher than Lars Bakke's grain elevator.
Pasta Imperfect
10
Stopping at the grain elevator, she beckoned to Charlie Webster.
Quill's Window
11
His crop is in a grain elevator awaiting buyers.
Reuters
12
With the development of Buffalo was identified the rise of lake navigation and the grain elevator.
The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 5, May, 1884
13
The tunnel looked like a small grain elevator.
The Master-Knot of Human Fate
14
In Windsor City, it's Lars Bakke's grain elevator.
Pasta Imperfect
15
Anyway, Virgil got taken out when he was dismantling Lars Bakke's replica of the family grain elevator.
Hula Done It?
16
He was probably somewhere out beyond the burned hulk of the grain elevator and still heading north.
Summer of Night