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dumbwaiter

DEFINITION: (noun) A small elevator used to convey food (or other goods) from one floor of a building to another.

USAGE: The cook put the food on the dumbwaiter and sent it upstairs, where the waiters served it.

SYNONYMS: food elevator.

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