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OP I posted about his once before, but Dickens here uses it evidently to mean what I have heard called a "Lazy Susan".
"I bought a second-hand dumb-waiter for this dinner-party, in preference to re-engaging the handy young man; against whom I had conceived a prejudice, in consequence of meeting him in the Strand, one Sunday morning, in a waistcoat remarkably like one of mine, which had been missing since the former occasion. The 'young gal' was re-engaged; but on the stipulation that she should only bring in the dishes, and then withdraw to the landing-place, beyond the outer door; where a habit of sniffing she had contracted would be lost upon the guests, and where her retiring on the plates would be a physical impossibility. "
Dumb-waiter
(n.) A framework on which dishes, food, etc., are passed from one room or story of a house to another; a lift for dishes, etc.; also, a piece of furniture with movable or revolving shelves.
Lazy Susan
Axis-mounted shelves that revolve. Also called carousel shelves.
I have no idea whether these are really dumb waiters or not since many of the images on Google are highly questionable:
http://images.design.goantiques.com/thumbnails2/VGF1523MJ293AN.jpg
http://www.elmtreeantiques.co.uk/din8.jpg
I love 'carousel shelves' for lazy susan.
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