Definition of "coal-cellar" []

• A cellar used for storing coal, as for domestic use. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "A scullery in the old world was, in the case of such houses as ours, a damp, unsavory, mainly subterranean region behind the dark living-room kitchen, that was rendered more than typically dirty in our case by the fact that into it the coal-cellar, a yawning pit of black uncleanness, opened, and diffused small crunchable particles about the uneven brick floor."
• "Long nodded impassively and the conversation turned to the collection of furniture the cellar contained, some of which was going to have to come out through the coal-cellar doors."
• "The coal-cellar flew open before the foot of Mordacks; but no"