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loft 1, noun(dictionary)
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loft(1) (iou)



loft noun. LOE.
[Old Norse lopt air, sky, upper room, from Germanic. Cf. ALOFT, LIFT noun1.]
I. The air, the sky, the upper region. LOE-L16.
Spenser And ever-drizling raine upon the loft.
An upper room, an attic, esp. for storage etc. rather than living accommodation; US any upstairs room. Formerly also, an apartment or room. ME.
hayloft, rood-loft, etc.
Which? The Mansfield's house has..25mm of insulation in the loft.
b. A room over a stable esp. for the storage of hay and straw; a hayloft. M16.
a. A floor or storey in a house. LME-M17.
b. A layer, a stratum. M16-L17.
Orig., a room or gallery at the top of a rood-screen, a rood-loft. Later (now chiefly Scot. in gen. sense) a gallery in a church or public room; spec. an organ-loft. LME.
Thackeray The two schools had their pews in the loft on each side of the organ.
A ceiling. Formerly also, a floor of a room. obsolete exc. Canad. dial. L16.
An upper storey; an upper level in a house. N. Amer. E18.
Chiefly Shipbuilding & Nautical. A large room or gallery where something can be spread out for working on. Chiefly with specifying word. E18.
mould-loft, rigging-loft, sail-loft, etc.
b. A place where sails are made; a sail-loft. M20.
A pigeon-house, a dovecot, (also pigeon-loft). Also collect., the pigeons kept in a loft. M18.
II.
Backward slope in the head of a golf club. L19.
The action of lofting a ball in golf etc.; a lofting hit or stroke. L19.
Comb.: loft conversion the alteration of a loft, attic, etc., from storage space into a room suitable for living accommodation.