Elevator

1. n. An instrument for raising a depressed portion of a bone.
2. n. One who, or that which, raises or lifts up anything
3. n. 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.
4. n. A cage or platform 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.
5. n. A building for elevating, storing, and discharging, grain.
6. n. A muscle which serves to raise a part of the body, as the leg or the eye.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.