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 Hugh Lundsford
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 little cockloft does not fill the whole of this upper story.
From The Light That Lures by Percy James Brebner
My case was a desperate one, and I might have acceded to his proposal if he had not unguardedly added that I should have to sleep in a cockloft in the shed!
From Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale by John Sherburne Sleeper
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 J. Hamilton Fyfe
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