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dumbwaiter

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10 lettersPronunciation /ˈdʌmˌweɪtəɹ/Part of speech nounSorted abdeimrtuwStarts with DEnds with R0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a small elevator used to convey food (or other goods) from one floor of a building to another

Word origin

From dumb (“unable to speak”) + waiter, originally separate words and describing the portable table's inability to relate gossip after the meal. By the use of the term to describe small service elevators in American homes in the 1840s, it simply meant dumb as “mechanical”, “unable to speak at all”.

Used in a sentence

  • 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.

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