dumbwaiter
Pronunciation
  • (GA, Canada) IPA: /ˈdʌmˌweɪtəɹ/
Noun

dumbwaiter (plural dumbwaiters)

  1. A small elevator used to move food etc. from one floor of a building to another.
  2. (obsolete) A table or set of trays on rollers used for serving food.
    • 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter VII, in Great Expectations [...] In Three Volumes, volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, OCLC 3359935 ↗, page 110 ↗:
      Sauces, wines, all the accessories we wanted, and all of the best, were given out by our host from his dumbwaiter; and when they had made the circuit of the table, he always put them back again.
  3. (obsolete) A lazy Susan.
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