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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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
A few roughly fashioned seats and tables, and a ladder staircase, leading upward to an attic or cockloft, completes the inventory of the interior.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
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
Peering out through first one and then the other of the loopholes of the cockloft, he waited, and it seemed to him that he waited eternally.
From The Law of Hemlock Mountain by Lundsford, Hugh
He knew nothing of the picture he made with clothing torn from his scrambling rushes up-ladder and down-ladder and his crouching and shifting among the rough nail-studded spaces of the cockloft.
From The Law of Hemlock Mountain by Lundsford, Hugh
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