cellarer Hist.
(ˈsɛlərə(r))
Forms: 4–6 cell-, celerer(e, 6 selerer, 7 cellerar, 6– cellarer.
[ME. celerer, cellerer, a. Anglo-Fr. celerer, for OF. celerier, f. celier cellar.]
The officer in a monastery, or similar establishment, who had charge of the cellar and provisions.
| a 1300 Vox & Wolf 59 Ac weste hit houre cellerer, He wolde rone after the ȝonge. c 1386 Chaucer Monk's Prol. 48 Thou art..Som worthy sexteyn, or som Celerer. 1483 Caxton Gold. Leg. 149/1 He comanded yet to the celerer to gyue it [the oil] to a poure man. 1521 Test. Ebor. (Surtees) V. 131 Laurence Clerke, maister sellerar of th'abbay of Whalley. 1662 Fuller Worthies (1840) I. 236 Bred a monk in Bury Abbey, and the Cellerar thereof. 1820 Scott Monast. x, The cellarer will bestow on each a grace-cup and a morsel as ye pass the buttery. 1866 Rogers Agric. & Prices I. xxv. 627. |