Cellar vs Stilt - What's the difference?
cellar | stilt |
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.
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
, 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. }}
Either of two poles with footrests that allow someone to stand or walk above the ground; used mostly by entertainers.
A tall pillar or post used to support some structure; often above water.
Any of various wading birds of the genera Himantopus'' and ''Cladorhynchus , related to the avocet, that have extremely long legs and long thin bills.
A crutch.
The handle of a plough.
As nouns the difference between cellar and stilt
is that cellar is an enclosed underground space, often under a building; used for storage or shelter while stilt is either of two poles with footrests that allow someone to stand or walk above the ground; used mostly by entertainers.As verbs the difference between cellar and stilt
is that cellar is to store in a cellar while stilt is to raise on stilts, or as if on stilts.cellar
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Alternative forms
* seller (obsolete)Etymology 1
From (etyl) celer, (etyl) celier (modern (cellier)), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* cellarage * cellarer * cellar dweller * cyclone cellar * root cellar * storm cellar * wine cellarVerb
(en verb)citation
Etymology 2
From 15th Century English saler, from (etyl)Anagrams
* *stilt
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(en noun)- (Halliwell)
