cockloft

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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

This little cockloft does not fill the whole of this upper story.

From The Light That Lures by Brebner, Percy James

A few roughly fashioned seats and tables, and a ladder staircase, leading upward to an attic or cockloft, completes the inventory of the interior.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

Often the cockloft is empty, in those which Nature hath built many stories high.

From Familiar Quotations by Bartlett, John

It seemed to 182 him that he had spent hours there in the cockloft, whereas perhaps thirty minutes had elapsed.

From The Law of Hemlock Mountain by Lundsford, Hugh