Associations to the word «Dumbwaiter»

Wiktionary

DUMBWAITER, noun. (obsolete) a table or set of trays on rollers used for serving food
DUMBWAITER, noun. (obsolete) a lazy Susan
DUMBWAITER, noun. A small elevator used to move food etc. from one floor of a building to another.

Dictionary definition

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

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope