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cockleloft

cockleloft 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 cockleloft

pluralcocklelofts

Questions about cockleloft

What is cockleloft the alternative form of?
Cockleloft is the alternative form of cockloft.

Words near cockleloft in the dictionary

  1. cockleburrs
  2. cockleburs
  3. cockled
  4. cockleert
  5. cockleerts
  6. cockleloft
  7. cocklelofts
  8. cockleman
  9. cocklemen
  10. cockler
  11. cocklers

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