cockloft
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Sot is an old word that signifies a dunce, dullard, jolthead, gull, wittol, or noddy, one without guts in his brains, whose cockloft is unfurnished, and, in short, a fool.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 by Peter Anthony Motteux
This hasty and guarded conversation was carried on between two plebe cadets who had met in a corridor of the academy "cockloft."
From Frank Merriwell's Chums by Burt L. Standish
"Had n't you better come down out of that cockloft?" said the marquis, dropping his eyes.
From Malcolm by George MacDonald
They found themselves in a long narrow cockloft, not more than six feet high at the highest, and insufferably hot.
From Count Hannibal A Romance of the Court of France by Stanley John Weyman
This little cockloft does not fill the whole of this upper story.
From The Light That Lures by Percy James Brebner
