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▪ I. cellar, n.|ˈsɛlə(r)|
Forms: 3–5 celer(e, 4–6 seler, 4–7 celler, (5 celar), 5–7 seller, 6–7 sellar, (7 sellor), 7– cellar.
[ME. celer, a. Anglo-F. celer, OF. celier (mod.F. cellier):—L. cellārium set of cells, receptacle for food, f. cella cell.]
†1.
a. A store-house or store-room, whether above or below ground, for provisions; a granary, buttery, or pantry. Obs. exc. dial. in fish-cellar; see quot. 1848; cf. also coal-cellar, wine-cellar.
a1225Ancr. R. 214 He stikeð euer iðe celere, oðer iðe kuchene. a1300Cursor M. 4676 Siþen commanded [ioseph] him-selue Depe selers for to delue. a1340Hampole Psalter cxliii. 15 Þaire celers ful riftand. c1375O.E. Prayers in Rel. Ant. I. 40 The kyng hath led me in to a wyn-celer. 1382Wyclif Luke xii. 24 Biholde ȝe crowis..to whiche is no celer, nether beerne, and God fedith hem. c1420Liber Cocorum (1862) 33 Kepe hit fro ayre..In cofer, or huche or seler merke. 1483Cath. Angl. 56 A Celler, cellarium..etc. vbi a butry. 1483Caxton Esope 2 b, He fonde the celer open.. and hath eten al the fygges. c1535G. Du Wes Introd. Fr. in Palsgr. 1031 Brynge this gentilman to the seller & make him good chere. 1598Florio, Cella..a seller or butterie. 1663Cowley Verses & Ess. (1669) 131 Sellars and Granaries in vain we fill, With all the bounteous Summers store. 1848C. A. Johns Week at Lizard 41 Here is a fish-cellar..a place for salting, keeping, and storing away pilchards.
†b. fig. Obs.
a1340Hampole Psalter lv. 12 Of þe awtere of my hert and þe celere of my consyens cumes all þat i kyndel in þi luf. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) I. 77 Paradys..was þe celer and place of all fairenesse. 1480Cambriæ Epit. 64 in Map's Poems (1841) App., God..Made that lond..To be selere of all hele. 1565Jewel Repl. Harding (1611) 393 A man..being brought by God into his inward cellers, may from thence obtaine the true vnderstanding, and interpretation of the Holy Scriptures.
2. a. An underground room or vault.
This sense occurs contextually in some of the earlier quots.; it is impossible to determine at what period the notion of ‘store-room’ began to give place to that of ‘underground chamber’. Cotgr. 1611 has it as the transl. of Fr. cave, and Minsheu 1617 gives as its equivalents Fr. cave and Lat. hypogæum.
[1331Literæ Cantuar. (Rolls) I. 400 Nostre celer de nostre novele meson de piere en Chepe.] c1330R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls.) 2068 In Londone he dide hure kepe Vnder erthe in a seler depe. c1450Merlin 125 In roches or in seleres under erthe. 1583Stubbes Anat. Abus. ii. 29 In a moyst seller, vnderneath the grounde. 1633T. Stafford Pac. Hib. viii. (1821) 572 They were constrayned to retyre into the Sellors. 1787T. Jefferson Corr. (1830) 123 A fine piece of mosaic, still on its bed, forms the floor of a cellar. 1873Morley Rousseau I. 41 After..six weeks..passed in the garret or cellar of his rude patroness. 1877Bryant Song of Tower vii, In..the damp cellar's stifling air.
†b. transf. Applied to the grave. Obs.
c1550Lacy Wyl Bucke's Test., I bequeth mi body to the colde seler.
c. With defining words prefixed, as beer-cellar, coal-cellar, wine-cellar, which see under their initial element.
3. Often for wine-cellar; hence transf. the contents of the wine-cellar, a person's stock of wines.
1541Act 33 Hen. VIII, c. 12. §10 The sergeant of the sellar..shall also be than and there redy with a pot of redde wine. 1610Shakes. Temp. ii. ii. 137 My Cellar is in a rocke by th' sea-side. 1706–7Farquhar Beaux' Strat. i. i, I have now in my Cellar Ten Tun of the best Ale in Staffordshire. 1841Emerson Lect. Conserv. Wks. (Bohn) II. 274 O conservatism! your pantry is full of meats and your cellar of wines. Mod. He gives very good dinners, but I don't think much of his cellar.
†4. A box, a case; esp. for holding bottles; a case of bottles. (For salt-cellar cf. saler, of which -cellar is a corruption.) Obs.
1632B. Jonson Magn. Lady iii. i. (D.) Run for the cellar of strong waters quickly. 1627Capt. Smith Seaman's Gram. xiii. 61 Boy fetch my cellar of bottles. 1667Pepys Diary 1 Apr., His wife afterwards did..give me a cellar of waters of her own distilling.
¶5. for soler, upper-room.
a1300Cursor M. 15208 He þam lent..A celer in at ete. 1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) III. 285 Goenge to a hie parte of the seller [solarii] or chamber.
6. attrib. and Comb., as cellar-bin, cellar-door, cellar-keeper, etc.; cellarless adj.; also cellar-book, a book containing an account of the stock of wines, etc. in a cellar; cellar-flap, a flap on hinges, level with the surface of the ground, opening into a cellar; cellar-kitchen, a kitchen below the ground-floor, a basement kitchen; cellar-physic, wine; cellar-plate, an iron plate in the pavement covering the entrance-hole of a coal-cellar; cellar-slug, a large striped slug found in cellars; cellar-way, a passage through, or as if through, cellars.
1883Lloyd Ebb & Fl. I. 2 Its *cellar-bins—some one else's patent.
1769G. Selwyn Let. 4 July in Hist. MSS. Comm. (1897) 15th Rep., App. VI. 248 According to my *cellar book you will have had in all ten dozen. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair xxiv. 202 He..overhauled the butler's cellar-book. 1920G. Saintsbury (title) Notes on a cellar-book.
1684Gt. Frost (1844) 14 Their carelessly leaving open *sellar door. 1697C'tess D'Aunoy's Trav. (1706) 193 It is as big as a Cellar-door key.
1884T. W. Hime Public Health 57 Prohibition of occupying of *Cellar Dwellings.
1883Daily News 10 Jan. 6/7 Injuries received..in falling over the *cellar-flap.
1591Percivall Sp. Dict., Cillero, a *celler-keeper.
1793J. Beresford in Looker-on No. 54 Cow-heel and such *cellar-messes.
1697W. Dampier Voy. (1729) I. 542 Fine Air..good Kitchin and *Cellar Physick.
1881Daily News 22 Apr. 2/6 The defendant was legally liable in having his *cellar plate unfastened.
1882Garden 30 Dec. 579/2 A fine example of the *cellar slug.
a1762S. Niles in Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll. (1861) V. 512 Two or three were found lying..in the *cellar-way. 1867Howells Ital. Journ. 47 The effect of the buildings vaulted above the sidewalks is that of a continuous cellarway.
▪ II. cellar, v.|ˈsɛlə(r)|
[f. prec. n.]
trans. To put into a cellar; to store up as in a cellar. Also, to cellar in, and fig.
16..Cotton, There underground a magazine Of sovereign juice is cellared in. 1677R. Cary Chronol. i. i. 1 vii. 23 They had ended their Vintage..and were ready to Seller their Wine. 1873W. S. Mayo Never Again ii. 17 His sympathies..cellared in the depths of his own mind. 1885Law Times LXXX. 191/1 A pipe of port wine, which was cellared for the plaintiffs. 1886Athenæum 3 July 18/2.
▪ III. cellar
var. of celure, Obs. |