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 hasty and guarded conversation was carried on between two plebe cadets who had met in a corridor of the academy "cockloft."
From Frank Merriwell's Chums by Standish, Burt L.
"Had n't you better come down out of that cockloft?" said the marquis, dropping his eyes.
From Malcolm by MacDonald, George
They found themselves in a long narrow cockloft, not more than six feet high at the highest, and insufferably hot.
From Count Hannibal A Romance of the Court of France by Weyman, Stanley John
How come it the foolish notion buzzed in my cockloft that, like Samson of old, I might fall upon the adversary, hip, hurrah, and thigh, and of the fragments that remained gather seven bushels?
From Mr. Scraggs by Phillips, Henry Wallace
The alley hugged itself in the joyful sensation that it had a miser and his hoard in the cockloft.
From The Battle with the Slum by Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August)
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