cockloft

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Peering out through first one and then the other of the loopholes of the cockloft, he waited, and it seemed to him that he waited eternally.

From The Law of Hemlock Mountain by Lundsford, Hugh

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

One pertinacious fellow actually ensconced himself for several days in the cockloft, from which he watched Crompton at work in the room below, through a gimlet hole he bored in the ceiling.

From Triumphs of Invention and Discovery in Art and Science by Fyfe, J. Hamilton

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 Kephart, Horace

Often the cockloft is empty in those whom Nature hath built many stories high.—Fuller:

From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by Bartlett, John