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cock-loft
[Origin doubtful: a corresponding Scotch name hen-loft for a loft over a barn, etc., into which fowls ascend by a ‘hen-ladder’, suggests that the derivation is from the fowl. But it is not impossible that cock has some fig. or transferred sense. Antony à Wood wrote it cockle-loft.]
A small upper loft; a small apartment under the very ridge of the roof to which the access is usually by a ladder; ‘the room over the garret’ (J.).
1589in Wadley Bristol Wills (1886) 259 A spruce chest wch ys in the Cocklofte. 1591Percyvall Sp. Dict., Desvan de casa, a garret or cockloft, solarium. 1640–4Owen O'Conally Irish Conspir. in Rushw. Hist. Coll. iii. (1692) I. 400 In the end, the Sheriffs of the City..found him hidden in a Cock-loft, in an obscure House. a1661B. Holyday Juvenal 56 The cock-lofts of mean mens houses, to which they usually ascended by a ladder. a1672Wood Life (1848) 33 His Chamber, which was a cockleloft over the common gate of that college. 1673― in Pref. Ath. Oxon. (1813) p. lxxiii, I was so great a lover of antiquities that I loved to live in an old cockleloft rather than in a spacious chamber. 1751Johnson Rambl. No. 117 ⁋13 You sometimes quit the garret, and ascend into the cock-loft. 1865Sat. Rev. 8 July 48/1 The notion of a prince having to climb into a cockloft approaches the tragic.
fig.1667H. More Div. Dial. iv. §29 Cuphophron has been so mewed up in his Philosophical and Metaphysical Cock-loft. 1708Motteux Rabelais v. viii. (1737) 32 Un⁓nestle the Angels from their Cockloft. 1859Gen. P. Thompson Audi Alt. II. lxxxii. 42 The right..of every man to view the past from his own cock-loft. |