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 Andy Adams
With a leap they reached the cyclone cellar.
From The Boy Ranchers on Roaring River or Diamond X and the Chinese Smugglers by Howard L. (Howard Livingston) Hastings
"Russ, come in here!" called Mr. Pertell, through a crack in the trap door of the cyclone cellar.
From The Moving Picture Girls at Rocky Ranch Or, Great Days Among the Cowboys by Laura Lee Hope
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