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Loft   /lɔft/   Listen
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



... wood from 1 inch to 3 inches broad. Long slips of fir used for setting fair the sheer lines of a ship, or drawing the lines by in the moulding loft, and ...
— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth
... Capel Loft. In the language of Eton the word gig comprehended all that was ridiculous, all that was to be laughed at, and plagued to death; and of all gigs that was, or ever will be, this gentleman, while a boy, was ...
— The English Spy • Bernard Blackmantle
... incorporated itself and started a paper, of which I took charge. The paper was published in the loft of a livery stable. That is the reason they called it a stock company. You could come up the stairs into the office or you could twist the tail of the iron-gray ...
— Remarks • Bill Nye
... Hallets brought my basket over then, an' touched his hat as if I'd been a lady. That was the last time my boy had his arms about me: next week he went away. That night I heerd him in his room in the loft, here an' there, here an' there, as if he couldn't sleep, an' so for many nights, comin' down in the mornin' with his eye red an' swollen, but full of the laugh an' joke as always. The Hallets were with ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 91, May, 1865 • Various
... hunchback had stayed in the city for the day and no travelling men got off the trains to be driven over the hills. In the afternoon hay brought over the hill from the fruitful valley was being put into the loft of the barn and between loads McGregor and the two boys sat on the bench by the stable door. The two boys went to the saloon and brought back beer, paying for it from a fund kept for that purpose. The fund was the result ...
— Marching Men • Sherwood Anderson


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