Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CEL'LAR-IST, or CEL'LAR-ER, n.

An officer in a monastery who has the care of the cellar, or the charge of procuring and keeping the provisions; also, an officer in chapters, who has the care of the temporals, and particularly of distributing bread, wine, and money to canons, on account of their attendance in the choir. – Encyc.