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subcellar

[ suhb-sel-er ]

noun

  1. a cellar below the main cellar.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of subcellar1

First recorded in 1850–55; sub- + cellar

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Example Sentences

Just now the elevator was going down, and down it continued to go to the very subcellar.

Bayliss, on the contrary, was either in the seventh heaven of bliss or the subcellar of despair.

A second later his eyes widened as he saw a trap door, evidently leading to a subcellar.

He felt himself thrown down bodily into a sort of subcellar.

I was glad to got a job learning on shirts in a subcellar and the boss boards me for wages.

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