Showing posts with label salt seller. Show all posts
Showing posts with label salt seller. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

seller, cellar

Seller or seller means the person or party who has offered something for sale--
If you have any questions about the item, contact the seller directly.
The seller says he can wait until Friday for payment.

Cellar or cellar ( rhymes with seller ) means a basement or underground room--
We left the windows open to air out the cellar.
Don't put the books in the cellar. They'll get musty.

Now that you know that, you can say--
"He has a cellar full of old stuff. He ought to become a flea market seller.

Note--"cellar" is also an old-fashioned word for a type of dish or compartment, as in the expression "salt cellar" , meaning a dish for holding salt, instead of the more modern salt shaker.
A person who sells salt might be called a "salt seller", but that would be unusual.