Hist. 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, Monkes 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.
