Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A cellar beneath another cellar.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A cellar beneath another story wholly or partly underground; usually, a cellar under a cellar.

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Examples

  • It was really a kind of subcellar reached by a door at the back of the wine cellar.

    I’ll Walk Alone Mary Higgins Clark 2011

  • The “21” Club of the speakeasy era, with its elaborately engineered system for destroying incriminating evidence in the depths of its subcellar, was best memorialized by a rumor originating in the 1950s, when the land directly behind 21 West Fifty-second Street was excavated for construction of a branch of the New York Public Library on Fifty-third Street.

    LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

  • “Not into a police court . . . but into whatever is in the subcellar under a police court.”

    LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

  • “Not into a police court . . . but into whatever is in the subcellar under a police court.”

    LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

  • The “21” Club of the speakeasy era, with its elaborately engineered system for destroying incriminating evidence in the depths of its subcellar, was best memorialized by a rumor originating in the 1950s, when the land directly behind 21 West Fifty-second Street was excavated for construction of a branch of the New York Public Library on Fifty-third Street.

    LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

  • At one time the staff elevator could descend to this subcellar level.

    The Atlantis Prophecy Thomas Greanias 2008

  • Bill Clinton's 60% approval rating should not have been a shield against impeachment any more than Dubya's subcellar ratings should be a reason to impeach (as if another reason were needed).

    Rebuttals to Reasons NOT to Impeach 2007

  • Bill Clinton's 60% approval rating should not have been a shield against impeachment any more than Dubya's subcellar ratings should be a reason to impeach (as if another reason were needed).

    Rebuttals to Reasons NOT to Impeach 2007

  • They found a service elevator with an open shaft below and figured that, if desperate, they could rappel down into a subcellar and find a subway tunnel out.

    Archive 2004-09-01 2004

  • They found a service elevator with an open shaft below and figured that, if desperate, they could rappel down into a subcellar and find a subway tunnel out.

    Sept.11 hero story 2004

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