cellar

noun, a room below ground level in a house, often used for storage of food and wine (COD)

“Those little shelves were full of preserves, in the big, old, dark cellar.”

“You know all you had was maybe the cellar floor or a white ten gallon crock to set the stuff in down cellar in the summertime in the hot weather.”

“It wasn’t a basement, it was a cellar. There was a coal bin down there.”

“Back when we were growing up, most farms had cellars where they kept preserves and stuff.”

“Oh, down in the cellar it’s all rock, no cement basements. It was all flat on the Island, most of them, eh.”

“People would leave them in their cellars all winter.”

“And then of course at the end of the cellar was a big bin. You know, there was just boards up, and they made a big bin. That was for potatoes.”

“We were very self-sufficient because we had a cellar. The basements of today, I don’t think they’d keep the things. Even mine with my furnace now doesn’t keep things. But, ah, carrots, turnips, potatoes, onions, apples, all down cellar. And then on top of that, when it got cold, Dad would take the beehives down. It was cool enough, see, that the bees would stay there. It wasn’t a warm cellar at all.”

“No, they didn’t put no cellar under the house, and there’s just a crawl space, but most of the other places had cellars. Yeah, there was a cellar under the cheese factory, I guess. And the schoolhouse down there, it had a cellar under it, and another building used to be up above the house here; it had a cellar underneath it.”