The Collaborative International Dictionary
Subcellar \Sub*cel"lar\, n. A cellar beneath another story wholly or partly underground; usually, a cellar under a cellar.
Usage examples of "subcellar".
Nubar opened the door at the bottom of the stairs that led to the subcellar and descended the thirty steep steps to the landing halfway down.
The entire subcellar was packed with stacks and stacks of neatly piled papers, dossiers and card files and loose-leaf folders, the unread reports of the Uranist Intelligence Agency over the last seven months.
He estimated the height of the subcellar staircase with its two directions to the north and east, the height of the regular cellar staircase with its third northerly direction.
As weak as a flower, a frail Albanian flower withering away in an icy subcellar underneath Venice, driven there by marauding hordes of barbarians bent on destruction and chaos, once there repeatedly and savagely assaulted by the ravings of primitive minds insanely out of control in Jerusalem.
Well to escape the hordes of women and boys who were always besieging Byron in his living quarters, he had a secret subcellar built where he could retire late at night and write his poetry.
Twenty steps down stood the entrance to the subcellar, a low narrow door hidden behind a blanket, exactly as described by the footman.
When cleared, the find proved to be an oval, high-ceilinged chamber, walled and columned and paved with finely worked stone, boasting two wide staircases and a long, gradual ramp leading upward, requiring only removal of certain areas of pavement to provide easy access to the subcellar by man or beast.
The doors finally opened out onto the subcellar, a dark and dank empty concrete box littered with junk.
Now that his adrenaline levels were declining toward normal and now that the primitive survivalist within him had returned to his genetic subcellar, the enormity of what had happened belatedly hit him.
White House, and at the first opportunity sneaked down into the subcellar, the floor below the one on which the laboratory was located.
I could find Charles did he sleep in the lowest subcellar, did he walk the most obscure back way, did he haunt the steeple of St.
Fury worked her way up the stairs out of the subcellar, into the upper reaches of the house.
Along with its site in a subcellar of the habitat, this confirmed his suspicion that the Mars Hotel had originally been designed as a solar-flare shelter.
The meeting hall atop Mount Temple had been reduced to rubble by the constant bombardments, so the Convocation was sitting that day in spacious subcellars where the participants were relatively safe from the Skink weapons.
The explosion had split the flagstone asunder, revealing the cellars, subcellars, and vaults deep below the building.