The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cockloft \Cock"loft`\ (?; 115) n. [Prop., a loft where cocks
roost.]
An upper loft; a garret; the highest room in a building.
--Dryden. Swift.
Wiktionary
n. A small attic or garret
WordNet
n. a small loft or garret
Usage examples of "cockloft".
She would far rather have them all think her empty in the cockloft than to know the truth.
The ass laid himself down outside on the dunghill, the dog behind the door, the cat on the hearth by the warm ashes, and the cock settled himself in the cockloft, and as they were all tired with their long journey they soon fell fast asleep.
The boys on the floor below the Cockloft were out by this time, and they were enjoying the spectacle quite as much as the plebes above.
Then when some autarch (though they were not called autarchs then) hoped to recapture the dominion exercised by the first empire, they were gathered up by his servants, white-robed men who ransacked cocklofts and threw down the androsphinxes erected to memorialize the machines and entered the cubicula of moiraic women long dead.