tallet

British  

/ ˈtælət /

noun

1. dialect a loft

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Etymology

Origin of tallet

Welsh taflod , from Late Latin tābulata flooring

Example Sentences

I lay down in the tallet at the farm atop o' the hay, and never woke all day yesterday.

From Trevlyn Hold by Wood, Mrs. Henry

Now up in the tallet with ye, there’s a good boy, and down with another lock or two of hay—as fast as you can do it for me.’

From The Hand of Ethelberta by Hardy, Thomas

And our Capt'n posted some on us at top of cellar steps and led the rest on us up the stairs to a kind o' tallet where thuck machine-gun was.

From Leaves from a Field Note-Book by Morgan, John Hartman

Ay, ay, that he can, replied his lordship; for, by my saul, mon, he and I have stolen many a dog, and lain in many a hay tallet, in our youthful days. 

From The Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew King of the Beggars; containing his Life, a Dictionary of the Cant Language, and many Entertaining Particulars of that Extraordinary Man by Unknown

Nora had scarcely shown her wisdom in releasing Jim so quickly; but it may be that to keep him longer concealed in the "tallet" was next door to impossible.

From Trevlyn Hold by Wood, Mrs. Henry