A man who has charge of a cellar; spec. the keeper of the Cellar-tavern in old Newgate. Also transf.
1658. Rowland, trans. Moufet’s Theat. Ins., 920. The Greek Poets make them [drones] to be the Bees cellarmen, or water-bearers.
1772. Jackson, in Phil. Trans., LXIII. 11. Through the inattention of the cellarman.
1857. Stanley, Mem. Canterb., ii. 58. One of the cellarmen of the Priory.
1870. Daily News, 27 Dec., 7/1. The wine in bottle, I was told by the cellarman, is not for sale.
1884. A. Griffiths, Chron. Newgate, 5. The ‘cellarmen’ were selected prisoners who could sell candles at their own prices, and got a percentage upon the liquors consumed.
