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
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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 Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis
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
And terrified us so We sprang up to the cockloft, she and I. Then out he hurled, decamping with the rugs.
From The Frogs by Aristophanes
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
In a single-room cabin there usually is a cockloft, reached by a ladder, for storage, and maybe a bunk or two.
From Our Southern Highlanders by Horace Kephart
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