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

The head cellarman had gone round the place with him and his master, and Leigh at once went to him.

From No Surrender! A Tale of the Rising in La Vendee by Stanley L. Wood

Then there was “Don Saltero’s” tavern, kept by a tall Scotchman and his factotum, a little short fat man, a sort of “Joe Willett of the Maypole,” who was barman, cellarman, and waiter in one. 

From Rambling Recollections of Chelsea by an old inhabitant by J. B. Ellenor

Use, ask for, take from my larder what you like; I appoint you cellarman.

From The Captiva and the Mostellaria by Henry T. (Henry Thomas) Riley

Finally, the cellarman had to consult one of the monks who was good at puzzles of this kind, and who showed him how the thing was done.

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

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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