A passageway, stairway, or entrance leading to or providing access to a cellar or basement.
From cellar plus way (Old English). This compound emerged as a practical architectural term to describe the various routes and passages providing cellar access.
Old cellarways in historic buildings often reveal fascinating architecture—wooden stairs worn smooth by centuries of footsteps, stone walls that tell stories of the building's age, and sometimes hidden spaces from Prohibition tunnels.
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