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grain elevators

grain elevators is the plural of grain elevator.

Meaning of grain elevator

Noun

grain elevator (plural grain elevators)

  1. (Canada, US) A large structure for the storage of grain. It is more specialized than a regular granary in that it uses an elevating mechanism to hold the grain in one of many different bins, and that it is designed to fill large trucks and train cars for shipping grain in bulk.
    • By analyzing the costs of operating a country grain elevator these advantages, if any exist, should appear.1922, Joseph Bernard Kenkel, The Cooperative Elevator Movement: A Study in Grain Marketing at Country Points in the North Central States, Catholic University of America, pg. 97

Questions about grain elevators

What is grain elevators the plural of?
Grain elevators is the plural of grain elevator.

Words near grain elevators in the dictionary

  1. grain car
  2. grain cars
  3. Grain Coast
  4. grain corn
  5. grain elevator
  6. grain elevators
  7. grain engulfment
  8. grain engulfments
  9. grain entrapment
  10. grain entrapments
  11. grain itch

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