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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 it over
  2. cock juice
  3. cock juices
  4. cock knocker
  5. cock knockers
  6. cock loft
  7. cock of the plains
  8. cock of the roost
  9. cock of the walk
  10. cock off
  11. cock on

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