hayloft

[hey-lawft, -loft]

noun

1. a loft in a stable or barn for the storage of hay.

Word History and Origins

Origin of hayloft¹

First recorded in 1565–75; hay + loft

Example Sentences

When he’s stashing the stolen paintings later in a farmhouse’s hayloft and accidentally knocks the ladder out from under him, the moment is amusing and appropriately metaphorical.

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A ladder goes up to what Mom says is the hayloft.

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She lay in the hayloft with the chickens gathered around her until morning.

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We, of course, had to try it, and I held the horse—or tried to—while my friend jumped from the hayloft opening in the barn onto the horse’s waiting back.

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The action rarely leaves the hayloft and never leaves the farm.

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