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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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 Hugh Lundsford
Balked greed and craven fear tore at Legrand's very soul when he returned to the cockloft in the Faubourg St. Antoine and found it empty.
From The Light That Lures by Percy James Brebner
The audience numbered nearly two thousand, pit, gallery and cockloft being filled to overflowing.
From Shakspere, Personal Recollections by John A. Joyce
It seemed to 182 him that he had spent hours there in the cockloft, whereas perhaps thirty minutes had elapsed.
From The Law of Hemlock Mountain by Hugh Lundsford
Turn to the poor: their megrims are as strange; Bath, cockloft, barber, eating-house, they change; They hire a boat; your born aristocrat Is not more squeamish, tossing in his yacht.
From The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry by John Conington
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