What does undercroft mean?
Undercroft means A cellar or vaulted storage room..
Undercroft
Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
Meaning
A cellar or vaulted storage room..
Definitions by Sense
- A cellar or vaulted storage room.
- 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.
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Word Forms
- undercrofts
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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.
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