Also 6 erron. windseller. [f. WINE sb.1 + CELLAR sb. Cf. MLG. wînkelder, MHG. wînkeller, ON. vínkjallari.] A cellar used for storing wine. Also fig.

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1371.  Close Roll 45 Edw. III., m. 4 dorso (P.R.O.). Vnam magnam Cameram vocatam la Whit Chambre cum vno celario sub dicta camera vocata le Wyn celer.

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1375.  Barbour, Bruce, V. 399. All the vittale, outakin salt,… In the vynesellar gert he bryng.

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14[?].  Pallad. on Husb. (Bodl. MS.), lf. 1. Cisterne celar for oyles, wyne celar, and columbary.

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1538.  Elyot, Canabus, a wyne sellar.

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1577.  Googe, trans. Heresbach’s Husb., 11 b. I wyll shewe you … Pipes, Tonnels,… when you come to the Brewhouse, and Windseller.

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1647.  T. Calvert, Heart Salve, To Rdr. The soule … is led into the Winecellar of Gods promises.

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1756–7.  trans. Keysler’s Trav., IV. 189. The council’s wine-cellar is so spacious, that a coach and six may turn about in it.

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1839.  Ure, Dict. Arts, 1303. Wine-cellars ought to be dry at bottom.

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