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

synonym: food elevator.

Roget 307: elevation; raising etc. v.; erection, lift; sublevation^†, upheaval; sublimation, exaltation; prominence etc. (convexity) 250.    lever etc. 633; crane, derrick, windlass, capstan, winch; dredge, dredger, dredging machine.    dumbwaiter, elevator, escalator, lift.    ... show more