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Definition of Elevator car
1. Noun. Where passengers ride up and down. "The car was on the top floor"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Elevator Car
Literary usage of Elevator car
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1914)
"The elevator car did not quite fill the well, or shaft, and the bottom of the
floor that it was approaching projected at right ..."
2. A Treatise on the Law of Carriers: As Administered in the Courts of the by Robert Hutchinson, Jacob Scott Matthews, William Frederick Dickinson (1906)
"Leaving the door of a passenger elevator shaft open and unguarded, so that persons
taking the usual course to enter the elevator car are liable to fall down ..."
3. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"A governor is placed on the elevator car or on the beam which support - the
sheaves, whose speed varies with the speed of the car. ..."
4. Insurance, Principles and Practices by Robert Riegel, Henry James Loman (1922)
"(6) elevator car elevator car shall mean the car, cage or platform which is
operated in an elevator shaft or hoistway. (7) Dumbwaiters A dumbwaiter is a ..."
5. Insurance: Principles and Practices by Robert Riegel, Harry James Loman (1921)
"(6) Elevator Our elevator car shall mean the car, cage or platform which is
operated in an elevator shaft or hoistway. (7) Dumbwaiter* A dumbwaiter is a ..."
6. Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1905)
"... that the elevator car with workmen on it fell, either because the clutches of
the elevator were out of order and failed to work or because the posts on ..."
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