Undercroft
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Undercroft is a noun meaning A cellar or vaulted storage room.
Meaning
A cellar or vaulted storage room.
More Meanings
- A ground-level car park that occupies the base of a building.
Example Sentences
The MR [Midland Railway] instead approached its new St Pancras terminus by bridging the canal. This required that the train deck in the Barlow train shed be supported 15ft or so above ground level on more than 800 cast-iron columns (carefully spaced to mirror Burton's beer warehouses), thereby creating the undercroft in which tens of thousands of barrels of beer arriving by rail were stored.
Word Forms
- undercrofts
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include vaulted, vault, underkeep, cellar, underroom, crypt.
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