elevator

n. [ L., one who raises up, a deliverer: cf. F. élévateur. ] 1. One who, or that which, raises or lifts up anything. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A mechanical contrivance, usually an endless belt or chain with a series of scoops or buckets, for transferring grain to an upper loft for storage. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A cage or platform (called an elevator car) and the hoisting machinery in a hotel, warehouse, mine, etc., for conveying persons, goods, etc., to or from different floors or levels; -- called in England a lift; the cage or platform itself. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A building for elevating, storing, and discharging, grain. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Anat.) A muscle which serves to raise a part of the body, as the leg or the eye. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Surg.) An instrument for raising a depressed portion of a bone. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Aëronautics) A movable plane or group of planes used to control the altitude or fore-and-aft poise or inclination of an airship or flying machine. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

Elevator head,
Elevator leg, and
Elevator boot, the boxes in which the upper pulley, belt, and lower pulley, respectively, run in a grain elevator. [ 1913 Webster ] --
Elevator shoes, shoes having unusually thick soles and heels, designed to make a person appear taller than he or she actually is. [ PJC ]