down cellar

adverb, U.S. regional (chiefly north-eastern) in or into the cellar or basement (“down, prep.” OED)

“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.”

“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. And they’d be making pies and salads and what have you for a week ahead.”

“That week before Christmas, she’d be killing turkeys all day and picking them and then at night cleaning them up. Picking pins and doing up their heads and hang them up down cellar. And then get down there in the morning and bring them back up and put them in tubs and cans and what have you to take them to the market.”

“I got one down cellar that hasn’t got thrown out yet.”

“There must be another radio.”
“Yeah. There’s another one down cellar.”