Noun
grain elevator (plural grain elevators)
(agriculture, Canada, US) A large structure for the storage of grain. It is more specialized than a regular granary in that in uses an elevating mechanism to hold the grain in one of many different bins, and that it it designed to fill large trucks and train cars for shipping grain in bulk.
Paulus chose the grain elevator and silos as the symbol of Stalingrad for a patch he was having designed to commemorate the battle after a German victory. Source: Internet
Avinell filed on a homestead just on the east edge of town, where there was later a sugar beet factory and now a grain elevator, and Morton had a homestead a few miles north of town. Source: Internet
For years, Wright sowed wheat and soybeans conventionally, but when the local grain elevator stopped buying wheat he needed to diversify. Source: Internet
Following a major fire in December 1911 that destroyed the grain elevator, operations were relocated to a new, larger port created by the CPR at Port McNicoll opening in May 1912. Source: Internet