cockloft

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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.

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

In a single-room cabin there usually is a cockloft, reached by a ladder, for storage, and maybe a bunk or two.

From Our Southern Highlanders by Kephart, Horace

Ah, well! there are piles of dusty memories in the old cockloft still untouched, but I shall rummage no more to-night.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 by Various

And terrified us so We sprang up to the cockloft, she and I. Then out he hurled, decamping with the rugs.

From The Frogs by Aristophanes