cockloft

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

From Count Hannibal A Romance of the Court of France by Weyman, Stanley John

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

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.

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

The audience numbered nearly two thousand, pit, gallery and cockloft being filled to overflowing.

From Shakspere, Personal Recollections by Joyce, John A.