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cellarPortion of a building beneath ground level, used for utilitarian and storage purposes. It is often called a basement, especially when constructed as part of a foundation. A cellar used for food storage (e.g., a root cellar) may be beneath a house or located outdoors, partly underground, with the upper part mounded over with earth to maintain fairly constant temperature and humidity; the entire enclosure may be concrete, or the floor may be of dirt and the ceiling of timber. |
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| It passed, scrap- ing faintly across the cellar door. One day she accompanied me, upon some household errand, into the cellar of the old building which our poverty compelled us to inhabit. At last she came to the cellar, and there sat a very, very old woman, who could not keep her head from shaking. |
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