Cellar vs Cellary - What's the difference?

cellar | cellary |

As a noun cellar

is an enclosed underground space, often under a building; used for storage or shelter.

As a verb cellar

is to store in a cellar.

As an adjective cellary is

characteristic of a cellar; musty, gloomy, etc.

cellar

English

Alternative forms

* seller (obsolete)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) celer, (etyl) celier (modern (cellier)), from (etyl) .

Noun

(en 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 competition.

(historical) A small dish for holding salt.

Derived terms

* cellarage * cellarer * cellar dweller * cyclone cellar * root cellar * storm cellar * wine cellar

Verb

(en verb)

To store in a cellar.

* {{quote-news, year=2008, date=June 25, author=Lucy Burningham, title=Beer Lovers Make Room for Brews Worth a Wait, work=New York Times citation

, passage=Mr. VandenBerghe says he’s cellared such memorable bottles as the Batch 1 Adam from Hair of the Dog, a 14-year-old ale from Portland, Ore., that’s 10 percent alcohol, and the Trappistes Rochefort 10, a Quadrupel Belgian ale that peaks around age 10. }}

Etymology 2

From 15th Century English saler, from (etyl)

Noun

(en noun)

salt cellar

Anagrams

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cellary

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Characteristic of a cellar; musty, gloomy, etc.

* 1864 , New York State Agricultural Society, Proceedings of the annual meeting: Volume 23 (page 449)

Cellars, where the direct rays of the sun cannot enter, are often used as milk rooms, but there is always a cellary odor in them which impairs the flavor of the butter.

* 1880 , Marion Harland, Loiterings in pleasant paths

There is a cellary smell in all these old stone churches where slumber the mighty dead, suggestive of must, mould, and cockroaches, and on the hottest day a chill, like that of an ice-house.