cockloft

American  

[kok-lawft, -loft] / ˈkɒkˌlɔft, -ˌlɒft /

noun

Older Use.

1. a small loft or attic above the highest finished ceiling of a building.

2. a completely enclosed space between rafters and a suspended ceiling.

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cockloft British  

/ ˈkɒkˌlɒft /

noun

1. a small loft, garret, or attic

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Etymology

Origin of cockloft

First recorded in 1580–90; cock ¹ + loft

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Example Sentences

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cockloft

Neow,' says I, 'yeou got some ole plunder up ther in the cockloft, where yeou stuck me to sleep; 'tain't much use to yeou, and one article I see I want to trade fur.'

From The Humors of Falconbridge A Collection of Humorous and Every Day Scenes by Falconbridge

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

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

Oh, you needn't give yourself no trouble about loneliness and that sort of thing," said the elderly woman; "before to-morrow night the whole house may be crowded from cockloft to potato-cellar.

From The Squirrel Inn by Frank Richard Stockton

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