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Loft

noun

1.

Floor consisting of a large unpartitioned space over a factory or warehouse or other commercial space.

2.

Floor consisting of open space at the top of a house just below roof; often used for storage. Synonyms: attic, garret.

3.

(golf) the backward slant on the head of some golf clubs that is designed to drive the ball high in the air.

4.

A raised shelter in which pigeons are kept. Synonym: pigeon loft.

verb

(past & past part. lofted; pres. part. lofting)

1.

Store in a loft.

2.

Propel through the air.

3.

Kick or strike high in the air.

4.

Lay out a full-scale working drawing of the lines of a vessel's hull.

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"Loft" Quotes from Famous Books

... satisfaction, had not suffered much from the storm. The food we had left in the stables was nearly consumed; from which we concluded that the animals we had left here had sheltered themselves during the storm. We refilled the mangers with the hay we had preserved in the loft, and observing the sky getting more and more threatening, we set out without delay for our house, from which we were yet a considerable distance. To avoid Flamingo Marsh, which was towards the sea, and Rice Marsh, towards the rock, we determined ...

— The Swiss Family Robinson; or Adventures in a Desert Island • Johann David Wyss

... that the committee [of the city councils of Philadelphia is probably meant] were holding back under an intention that the rent should be paid by the public, to which he would not consent. It would be best, he thinks, if all the servants could be accommodated without using the loft over the stable, as no orders he could give them would prevent their carrying lights there, if they were to use it as lodgers. By return of the hand that takes this and other letters from him to the Alexandria post-office, ...

— Washington in Domestic Life • Richard Rush

... should think so was the last thing that Elsie would wish. Directly they were outside the door, she said in a careless tone, "It's nice and cool this morning across the moor: much better out here than in that little loft." ...

— Little Folks (July 1884) - A Magazine for the Young • Various

... churchyard on a Sunday morning when the curate has commenced the service prevailed. The boys were subdued by the moisture, as they are when they sit in the church aisle or organ-loft, before their members have been ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... part of the present church built, to be heightened and lengthened at the end of the fifteenth century when the clerestory and the chancel arcade were built, a new aisle wall set up on the north and the south aisle raised, the rood loft ...

— England of My Heart--Spring • Edward Hutton

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