cockloft

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Oh, you needn't give yourself no trouble about loneliness and that sort of thing," said the elderly woman; "before to-morrow night the whole house may be crowded from cockloft to potato-cellar.

From The Squirrel Inn by Stockton, Frank Richard

A few roughly fashioned seats and tables, and a ladder staircase, leading upward to an attic or cockloft, completes the inventory of the interior.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

They found themselves in a long narrow cockloft, not more than six feet high at the highest, and insufferably hot.

From Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France by Weyman, Stanley J.

How come it the foolish notion buzzed in my cockloft that, like Samson of old, I might fall upon the adversary, hip, hurrah, and thigh, and of the fragments that remained gather seven bushels?

From Mr. Scraggs by Phillips, Henry Wallace

This hasty and guarded conversation was carried on between two plebe cadets who had met in a corridor of the academy "cockloft."

From Frank Merriwell's Chums by Standish, Burt L.