cellar
IPA: sˈɛɫɝ
noun
- An enclosed underground space, often under a building, used for storage or shelter.
- A wine collection, especially when stored in a cellar.
- (slang) Last place in a league or competition.
- (UK, Northeastern US) A basement.
- salt cellar
- (historical) A small dish for holding salt.
verb
- (transitive) To store in a cellar.
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Examples of "cellar" in Sentences
- All the wines are bottled in the cellar.
- I was in the cellar changing the barrel.
- The man then committed suicide in the cellar.
- The mould is naturally present in the cellar.
- Bullets came through the cellar of the cabin.
- I will completely incinerate the deepest cellar.
- Only the vault construction of the cellar remained.
- A thunderstorm forces the kids to move into the cellar.
- The cellar is below, and the larder and store room above.
- In the center of the south wing is the entrance to the cellar.
- Mr Haq bustled off to what he called his cellar through the fronds of polyethylene Spanish moss.
- The New Zealand wineries are similar to the American wineries and welcome visitors to what they call the cellar door.
- For wine lovers, at Vigne Surrau, a 10-minute drive from Porto Cervo, the grape harvest will be under way, and the cellar is open for tours.
- While keeping an organized and accurate list of your cellar is key, keep in mind that many small production wines will not offer a bar code.
- The only foreign wine that Ghedina keeps in his cellar is a rough Piedmontese vintage called Vino Barbera, which costs about two francs the bottle.
- The part I play in the movie, Shakey, is what they call a cellar rat and they were the guys that moved the barrels around and hosed stuff down so Shakey didn't know much about making wine.
- ££ lains they dig great cellars and grottos, and strike a hole about a foot square, ten or twelve feet into the hill, which all the summer long blows a fresh air into the cellar, so that the wine in those cellar* drinks almost as cold as if it were in ice.
- “I will, my lord,” answered the executioner, “on condition that, if this must be in the way of dungeon execution, which I call cellar practice, my privilege to claim nobility shall be saved and reserved to me, and the execution shall be declared to be as effectual to my claim, as it might have been if the blow had been dealt in broad daylight, with my honorable blade of office.”
- Now his cellar is deep enough to have plenty of old vintage of white Burgundy and white Bordeaux to draw upon to hedge his exposure to premox, and I am sure that despite his Herculean efforts to ascertain provenance on the old wines he has purchased over the last decade, it is highly unlikely that he has not had to deal with more than his fair share of expensive fakes in his cellar.