cyclone cellar
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of cyclone cellar
An Americanism dating back to 1885–90
Example Sentences
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Putting his family safely away into a cyclone cellar he stood at the cellar door, watched.
From Time Magazine Archive
They found uncivic his Tornado, showing Kansans scuttling into a cyclone cellar as a giant cornucopia of wind marches across the darkened prairie.
From Time Magazine Archive
A cyclone cellar served as a storeroom for the sacked corn.
From Wells Brothers The Young Cattle Kings by Adams, Andy
There's a cyclone cellar for you, Florrie, below the water line.
From The Wreck of the Titan or, Futility by Robertson, Morgan
And then, one day, Pa Rearick blew in for another visit and caught his son playing a mandolin in our lounging room—far, far from the nearest cyclone cellar.
From At Good Old Siwash by Fitch, George
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