cockloft
Americannoun
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a small loft or attic above the highest finished ceiling of a building.
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a completely enclosed space between rafters and a suspended ceiling.
noun
Etymology
Origin of cockloft
Example Sentences
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This little cockloft does not fill the whole of this upper story.
From The Light That Lures by Percy James Brebner
One pertinacious fellow actually ensconced himself for several days in the cockloft, from which he watched Crompton at work in the room below, through a gimlet hole he bored in the ceiling.
From Triumphs of Invention and Discovery in Art and Science by J. Hamilton Fyfe
Ah, well! there are piles of dusty memories in the old cockloft still untouched, but I shall rummage no more to-night.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 by Various
And this here most august and upper-crust cockloft is the Conscrumptive Hospital.
From Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography by Thomas Hughes
Often the cockloft is empty, in those which Nature hath built many stories high.
From Familiar Quotations by John Bartlett
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