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/ˈdʌmˌweɪtəɹ/ · noun
A small elevator used to move food etc. from one floor of a building to another..
When writing he had a copyin machine: while he was a-writin he wouldn't suffer nobody to come in his room: had a dumb-waiter: when he wanted anything he had nothin to do but turn a crank and the dumb-waiter would bring him water or fruit on a plate or anything he wanted.
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.
Use dumb waiter when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Dumb waiter means A small elevator used to move food etc. from one floor of a building to another..
Common synonyms include food elevator.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
When writing he had a copyin machine: while he was a-writin he wouldn't suffer nobody to come in his room: had a dumb-waiter: when he wanted anything he had nothin to do but turn a crank and the dumb-waiter would bring him water or fruit on a plate or anything he wanted.
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