cockloft
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The cockloft above his room, which was reached by a ladder, had windows which were really only loopholes and from there he could better see into the tangle that sheltered his enemies.
From The Law of Hemlock Mountain by Hugh Lundsford
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 John Conington
Oh, you needn't give yourself no trouble about loneliness and that sort of thing," said the elderly woman; "before to-morrow night the whole house may be crowded from cockloft to potato-cellar.
From The Squirrel Inn by Frank Richard Stockton
Ah, well! there are piles of dusty memories in the old cockloft still untouched, but I shall rummage no more to-night.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 by Various
Intellect in a very Tall One.—"Ofttimes such who are built four stories high, are observed to have little in their cockloft."
From The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 by Charles Lamb
