Also 6–7 -idge, selerage, 7 selleredge, -idge. [f. CELLAR sb. + -AGE.]
1. Provision of cellars; cellar accommodation; cellars collectively.
1602. Shaks., Ham., I. v. 151. Come one, you here this fellow in the selleredge Consent to sweare.
1662. Gerbier, Princ. (1665), 36. Nor ought the Kitchin or other Offices and Selleridge … to be so placed as they may prove prejudiciall to the Court.
1797. Bradley, Fam. Dict., I. s.v. Building, A good Ascent … makes a House wholesome, and yields Conveniency for good Cellarage.
1855. Dickens, Dorrit, 407/2. The old house had had famous cellerage.
b. transf. and fig.
1865. E. Burritt, Walk to Land’s End, 349. It [Cornwall] has almost everything in its cellarage except coal.
1878. P. Bayne, Purit. Rev., v. 165. Counting in its ranks Coke and Selden, each with extensive cellarage of brain. [Cf. CELL 11 c.]
2. † a. A feudal or seignorial duty upon wine when placed in the cellar (obs.) b. Charge for the use of a cellar or storehouse. † c. Money collected from banqueters at a Lord Mayor’s Feast: see quot. 1825.
1512. Act 4 Hen. VIII., c. 10. The Bailifwike of Toppsam with the Selerage and Cranage and the Warren of Cones within the same.
1526. Ord. R. Househ. (1790), 195. Cellaridge, Cranage, Sponage, Romage, and Carriage of Wine.
1762. trans. Busching’s Syst. Geog., V. 666. The excise and toll is collected by the King’s officers, but the cellerage there by the magistrate to whom it belongs.
1809. R. Langford, Introd. Trade, 122. Paid cellerage £3 5s.
1825. in Hone, Every-day Bk., I. 1335. This was termed cellarage, and was divided between the yeoman of the cellar and the butler.
