cockloft

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He knew nothing of the picture he made with clothing torn from his scrambling rushes up-ladder and down-ladder and his crouching and shifting among the rough nail-studded spaces of the cockloft.

From The Law of Hemlock Mountain by Lundsford, Hugh

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 Weyman, Stanley John

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

Turn to the poor: their megrims are as strange; Bath, cockloft, barber, eating-house, they change; They hire a boat; your born aristocrat Is not more squeamish, tossing in his yacht.

From The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry by Conington, John

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