noun
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An enclosed underground space, often under a building, used for storage or shelter.
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A wine collection, especially when stored in a cellar.
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Last place in a league or competition.
verb
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To store in a cellar.
Examples of cellar in a Sentence
His gaze went to the wine cellar door, which she'd left cracked.
No one was in the wine cellar, and she sighed with relief.
Shouldn't we get in a cellar or something?
The cellar is below, and the larder and store-room above.
She opened the wine cellar and shivered at the cool breeze but forced herself to descend.
I heard we had a nice museum in the cellar.
Visually exploring the interior of the stone cellar, she was unable to find any sign of windows in the wall.
She wasn't going back in the cellar to await the psycho Other.
He was down in the wine cellar.
If asparagus or rhubarb is wanted for winter use, it should be taken up and stowed away in pit, frame, shed or cellar for a month or two.
In a cellar entered from the courtyard is the famous Great Tun of Heidelberg.
Poulain was used of a rope to let casks down into a cellar or to raise heavy weights.
Alpatych, his coachman, Ferapontov's wife and children and the house porter were all sitting in the cellar, listening.
She then focused on how to get out of the cellar.
In the cellar of this villa were discovered no less than twenty skeletons of the unfortunate inhabitants, who had evidently fled thither for protection, and fourteen in other parts of the house.
The mistress rocked and hushed her baby and when anyone came into the cellar asked in a pathetic whisper what had become of her husband who had remained in the street.
Matters were not bettered by the Act of Union signed in a cellar in High Street in 1707, amidst the execrations of the people, and it was not till the hopes of the Jacobites were blasted at Culloden (1746) that the townsfolk began to accept the inevitable.
Close by, on the market square, is the red-brick medieval town-hall (Rathaus), with an historical wine cellar beneath.
The Merveille (1203-1264) consists of two continuous buildings of three storeys, that on the east containing, one above the other, the hospitium (aumonerie), refectory and dormitory, that on the west the cellar, knights' hall (salle des chevaliers) and cloister.
The remainder of the day, so far as family life is concerned, is spent in the serdab, a cellar sunk somewhat below the level of the courtyard, damp from frequent wettings, with its half windows covered with hurdles thatched with camel thorn and kept dripping with water.
Its source is on the Jagdberg, a summit of the Rothaar Mountains, in the cellar of a house (Lahnhof), at an elevation of 1975 ft.
Signs were hung out on all sides to allure him; some to catch him by the appetite, as the tavern and victualling cellar; some by the fancy, as the dry goods store and the jeweller's; and others by the hair or the feet or the skirts, as the barber, the shoemaker, or the tailor.
I haven't been this frightened since I was seven years old and got locked in our cellar.
Light from the hidden hall filled the wine cellar.
Agitated, Darian retreated from the wine cellar to the house.
Jessi walked out of the strange cellar.
If roots have been placed in cellars, attention must be given to ventilation, which can be done by making a wooden box, say 6 by 8 in., to run from the ceiling of the cellar to the eaves of the building above.
On arriving at the cellar, the door was opened to him by Fawkes.
Cato says, the master of a family (patremfamilias) must have in his rustic villa "cellam oleariam, vinariam, dolia multa, uti lubeat caritatem expectare, et rei, et virtuti, et gloriae erit," that is, "an oil and wine cellar, many casks, so that it may be pleasant to expect hard times; it will be for his advantage, and virtue, and glory."
These cooling units can run anywhere from about $750 to a few thousand dollars, depending on the size and capacity of your wine cellar or closet.
Wine Enthusiast Catalog also offers a number of wine coolers, cooling systems, rack systems, cellar designs and more.
White wines including Chardonnay and white Burgundy may be served at "cellar temperature," which is 55 degrees Fahrenheit.
However, if your dessert wine is fortified with Port or Sherry, serve it at cellar temperature.
Ideally, you would have a wine cellar; this space doesn't have to be anything fancier than a simple rack in your basement.
If you are planning to store Champagne in your wine cellar, you'll want to make sure your rack will accommodate the bottles' width and overall shape.
The cellar should have a relative humidity between 60 and 70 percent.
There's some debate about the ideal storage position for Champagne bottles in a wine cellar.
How much space do you have in your wine cellar?
If you're planning to build or buy a wine cellar to store your Champagne, you'll find that the Internet is an excellent resource.
People from all over the world have shared Champagne storage tips, and there are dozens of wine cellar design ideas tailored to the specific storage needs of Champagne.
Regardless of whether you choose to build a cellar or buy pre-made modules to store your Champagne, remember that sparkling wine is best stored at low temperatures.
If you prefer a boutique or private label wine, visit the restaurant's private cellar.
I replaced the beam securing the door on my side and without a word, left the cellar.
She took in his wounds again, unable to fathom why her father would chain him to the wall in their wine cellar.
Jake led him into a dark wine cellar, and they paused to reload.
The two men herded them to the cellar's exit as the leader spoke.
She got up and dressed, shuddering at the thought of the dark damp cellar.
I'll admit, I don't know how you walked away from me like you did in the wine cellar.
Swallowing a cry of pain, she pushed herself up and stretched out her arms above her head, expecting the feel of a second set of wooden doors, if she really was in a cellar.
They had been concealed in a cellar to prevent their falling into the hands of the book-collecting princes of Pergamum, and were in a very dilapidated condition.