cockloft
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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 Motteux, Peter Anthony
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
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
And this here most august and upper-crust cockloft is the Conscrumptive Hospital.
From Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography by Hughes, Thomas
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 Lundsford, Hugh
