Cellar
['selə] or ['sɛlɚ]
Definition
(n.) A room or rooms under a building, and usually below the surface of the ground, where provisions and other stores are kept.
Typist: Ludwig
Definition
n. any underground room or vault: a cell underground where stores are kept esp. wine &c.—v.t. to store in a cellar.—ns. Cell′arage space for cellars: cellars: charge for storing in cellars; Cell′arer Cell′arist one who has charge of the cellar: an officer in a monastery who has the charge of procuring and keeping the provisions; Cell′aret an ornamental case for holding bottles; Cell′arman one who has the care of a cellar.—adj. Cell′arous (Dickens) belonging to a cellar: excavated: sunken.
Checker: Merle
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of being in a cold, damp cellar, you will be oppressed by doubts. You will lose confidence in all things and suffer gloomy forebodings from which you will fail to escape unless you control your will. It also indicates loss of property. To see a cellar stored with wines and table stores, you will be offered a share in profits coming from a doubtful source. If a young woman dreams of this she will have an offer of marriage from a speculator or gambler.
To dream of a wine-cellar, foretells superior amusements or pleasure will come in your way, to be disposed of at your bidding.
Edited by Gail
Examples
- I don't remember much about it, except that I was afraid of the cellar and the dark entry, and always liked the cake and milk we had up at the top. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The former was carrying a heavy basket up the cellar stairs. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- It expresses, as it were, the steward of the legal mysteries, the butler of the legal cellar, of the Dedlocks. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Sowerberry had not yet returned, and Oliver continued to kick, with undiminished vigour, at the cellar-door. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- The _hypocaust_ was a hot-air furnace built in the basement or cellar of the house and from which the heat was conducted by flues to the bath rooms and other apartments. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Let the contents of the larder and the wine-cellar be brought up, put into the hay-carts, and driven down to the Hollow. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- This cell was in shape and size something like an area cellar, only not so light. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- I have got some good wine in the cellar, and we can get a chop from the coffee-house. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- As I was on all the time, I would take a nap of an hour or so in the daytime--any time--and I used to sleep on those tubes in the cellar. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He was doing something in the cellar--something which took many hours a day for months on end. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- There was plenty of leisure on the two daily runs, even for an industrious boy, and thus he found time to transfer his laboratory from the cellar and re-establish it on the train. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Mr. Tulkinghorn, in repairing to his cellar and in opening and shutting those resounding doors, has to cross a little prison-like yard. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Paul said I was to seek you all over the house, from the grenier to the cellar, and when I found you, to give you that. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I thought I should have gone to the cellar. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- But inside, it was altogether charming, and the happy bride saw no fault from garret to cellar. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- They descended into the passage, and thence into the cellars below. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- The large bunch is the housekeeping, and the little bunch is the cellars, miss. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Mr. Osborne's butler came to buy some of the famous port wine to transfer to the cellars over the way. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- When Roosevelt formed the Progressive Party on a platform of social reform he crystallized a deep unrest, brought it out of the cellars of resentment into the agora of political discussion. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Stumpy and Rowdy, to lie in the cellars of those eminent bankers until the same period should arrive. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- In the dry-salt curing cellars are kept enormous stocks of the cheaper kinds of meat. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- There was a leak in one of our junction-boxes, and on account of the cellars extending under the street, the top soil had become insulated. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Dirt and dust exposed to the sunlight lose their living bacteria, while in damp cellars and dark corners the bacteria thrive, increasing steadily in number. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The practice of preserving roots, vegetables, and plants by covering them with earth or by placing them in cellars, etc. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- She did not even evade the haunted back kitchen nor the vault-like cellars. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- As to strong beer, there's enough of it in the cellars already, to drown the Manor House. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
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