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cock-loft

cock-loft is the alternative form of cockloft.

Meaning of cockloft

Noun

cockloft (plural cocklofts)

  1. A small attic or garret.
    • For if the lowest floors already burn, / Cocklofts and garrets soon will take the turn.1693, John Dryden, “The Third Satire of Juvenal”, in The Satirs of Decimus Juvenalis
  2. A horizontal void between a building's uppermost ceiling and its roof, with no habitable or accessible space.
    • Fires often spread through cocklofts.

Forms of cock-loft

pluralcock-lofts

Questions about cock-loft

What is cock-loft the alternative form of?
Cock-loft is the alternative form of cockloft.

Words near cock-loft in the dictionary

  1. cock-holsters
  2. cock-horse
  3. cock-horses
  4. cock-knocker
  5. cock-knockers
  6. cock-loft
  7. cock-of-the-rock
  8. cock-on
  9. cock-padle
  10. cock-padles
  11. cock-pit

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