cellar-flap

It was never quite clear how it was that the cellar-flap was not securely fastened that night.

The Land of Mist Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1926

It was never quite clear how it was that the cellar-flap was not securely fastened that night.

The Land of Mist Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1926

And then we saw not a door opened in the wall, but a cellar-flap released in the floor.

The Phantom of the Opera 1911

And last night parties unknown tried to break my leg for me with an open cellar-flap.

Hugo A Fantasia on Modern Themes Arnold Bennett 1899

Then, when the bridge is passed, and the train is skirting the very edge of a precipice, so that a stone dropped just outside the window would tumble straight down 300 feet, he suddenly lets go, and, balancing himself on the foot-board without holding on to anything, commences to dance a sort of Teutonic cellar-flap, and to warm his body by flinging his arms about in the manner of cabmen on a cold day.

Diary of a Pilgrimage 1893

Mrs. Macy's fallin 'through the cellar-flap giv' me a bad turn, but she's doin 'nicely,' n 'the minister makes up f'r anythin'.

Susan Clegg and Her Friend Mrs. Lathrop Anne Warner 1891

I recollect dining once at Mrs Bevan's, in that broad street round the corner by the coachmaker's, where the tipsy man fell through the cellar-flap of an empty house nearly a week before the quarter-day, and wasn't found till the new tenant went in -- and we had roast pig there.

Nicholas Nickleby Charles Dickens 1841

a cellar-flap for a pot of four-half, but that was not what we wanted.

Stage-Land 1893