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cockloft

cockloft noun: a small attic or garret.

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
    • All theſe gentlemen appeared at the hour appointed in Mr. Curll's dining-room, two excepted; one of whom was the gentleman in the cockloft, his landlady being out of the way, and the gradus ad parnaſſum taken down; the other happened to be too cloſely watched by the bailiffs.1716, Alexander Pope, A Further Account of the Most Deplorable Condition of Mr. Edmund Curll, Bookseller
  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 cockloft

pluralcocklofts
alternative formcock loft
alternative formcockleloft

Origin of cockloft

From cock + loft.

Questions about cockloft

What does cockloft mean?
Cockloft means a small attic or garret.
What part of speech is cockloft?
Cockloft is a noun.
What is the plural of cockloft?
The plural of cockloft is cocklofts.

Words near cockloft in the dictionary

  1. cocklicks
  2. cocklight
  3. cocklike
  4. cockling
  5. cocklings
  6. cockloft
  7. cocklofts
  8. cockly
  9. Cockman
  10. cockmaster
  11. cockmasters

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