dishtray

Noun

dishtray (plural dishtrays)

1. A tray for dishes.
   • One and all, these college girls welcomed us as we drove into the camps, pretended amusement at our stories, helped with the entertainments at the lodges, joined us in excursions in search of mountain flowers, supplemented our diet in return for assistance with the dishtrays and drying towels, and...1966, J[ames] Fred Rippy, “After a Summer in the Rocky-Mountain West I Return to Tennessee”, in Bygones I Cannot Help Recalling: The Memoirs of a Mobile Scholar, Austin, Tex.: Steck-Vaughn Company...
   • In a multi-convoluted helical conveyor of the character described for transporting substantially flat-bottomed full or empty dishtrays, the combination of a supporting structure, a pair of helically-parallel track bars supported by said structure, a plurality of chain-driving sprockets, and an...1973 January 29, Sidney T. Heifetz, George Ran, Theodore Equipment Corporation, Helical endless-belt mechanisms for fuel or empty dishtray transporting and lifting, US Patent 3,857,476, published 31...