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cellarage|ˈsɛlərɪdʒ|
Also 6–7 -idge, selerage, 7 selleredge, -idge.
[f. cellar n. + -age.]
1. Provision of cellars; cellar accommodation; cellars collectively.
1602Shakes. Ham. i. v. 151 Come one, you here this fellow in the selleredge Consent to sweare. 1662Gerbier Princ. (1665) 36 Nor ought the Kitchin or other Offices and Selleridge..to be so placed as they may prove prejudiciall to the Court. 1727Bradley Fam. Dict. I. s.v. Building, A good Ascent..makes a House wholesome, and yields Conveniency for good Cellarage. 1855Dickens Dorrit 407/2 The old house had had famous cellerage.
b. transf. and fig.
1865E. Burritt Walk Land's E. 349 Cornwall..has almost everything in its cellarage except coal. 1878Bayne Purit. Rev. v. 165 Counting in its ranks Coke and Selden, each with extensive cellarage of brain. [Cf. cell n.1 11 c.]
2.
†a. A feudal or seignorial duty upon wine when placed in the cellar (obs.).
b. Charge for the use of a cellar or storehouse.
†c. Money collected from banqueters at a Lord Mayor's Feast: see quot. 1825.
1512Act 4 Hen. VIII, c. 10 The Bailifwike of Toppsam with the Selerage and Cranage and the Warren of Cones within the same. 1526Ord. R. Househ. (1790) 195 Cellaridge, Cranage, Sponage, Romage, and Carriage of Wine. 1762tr. Busching's Syst. Geog. V. 666 The excise and toll is collected by the King's officers, but the cellerage there by the magistrate to whom it belongs. 1809R. Langford Introd. Trade 122 Paid cellerage {pstlg}3 5s. 1825in Hone Every-day Bk. I. 1335 This was termed cellarage, and was divided between the yeoman of the cellar and the butler. |