cockloft

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"It is an attractive programme, and I am a little tired of this cockloft," answered Bruslart.

From The Light That Lures by Brebner, Percy James

Sot is an old word that signifies a dunce, dullard, jolthead, gull, wittol, or noddy, one without guts in his brains, whose cockloft is unfurnished, and, in short, a fool.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 by Motteux, Peter Anthony

My case was a desperate one, and I might have acceded to his proposal if he had not unguardedly added that I should have to sleep in a cockloft in the shed!

From Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale by Sleeper, John Sherburne

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

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.