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

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne