cellarman

American  

[sel-er-muhn] / ˈsɛl ər mən /

noun

• cellarmen
  plural

1. a person who is in charge of the alcoholic-beverage supply of a hotel or restaurant.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• cellarmen
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of cellarman

First recorded in 1650–60; cellar + -man

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

cellarman cellarmen

His infant son was a breast-fed baby whose household at birth included a carver, a baker and a cellarman.

From Time Magazine Archive

On one occasion he sent for the cellarman, and complained that a particular bottling was not to his palate.

From The Canterbury Puzzles And Other Curious Problems by Henry Ernest Dudeney

He succeeded, however, in obtaining employment as a cellarman at the London Tavern, where it was his duty to be in the cellar from seven in the morning until eleven at night. 

From Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance by Samuel Smiles

Travelling on foot to Bath, he there obtained an engagement as a cellarman, but shortly after we find him back in the metropolis again almost penniless, shoeless, and shirtless. 

From Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance by Samuel Smiles

I’ve been a cellarman my life through, with my mind fully given to the business. 

From No Thoroughfare by Wilkie Collins

But, descrying traces of unmuddled harmony in a part-song one day, he gave his two under cellarmen faint hopes of getting on towards something in course of time. 

From No Thoroughfare by Wilkie Collins

The two other cellarmen, the three porters, the two ‘prentices, and the odd men?”

From No Thoroughfare by Wilkie Collins

The two other cellarmen, the three porters, the two ’prentices, and the odd men?”

From Dickens As an Educator by James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes

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