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loft

  [lawft, loft]
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–noun
1. a room, storage area, or the like within a sloping roof; attic; garret.
2. a gallery or upper level in a church, hall, etc., designed for a special purpose: a choir loft.
3. a hayloft.
4. an upper story of a business building, warehouse, or factory, typically consisting of open, unpartitioned floor area.
5. such an upper story converted or adapted to any of various uses, as quarters for living, studios for artists or dancers, exhibition galleries, or theater space.
6. Also called loft bed. a balcony or platform built over a living area and used esp. for sleeping.
7. Chiefly Midland and Southern U.S. an attic.
8. Golf.
a. the slope of the face of the head of a club backward from the vertical, tending to drive the ball upward.
b. the act of lofting.
c. a lofting stroke.
9. the resiliency of fabric or yarn, esp. wool.
10. the thickness of a fabric or of insulation used in a garment, as a down-filled jacket.
–verb (used with object)
11. to hit or throw aloft: He lofted a fly ball into center field.
12. Golf.
a. to slant the face of (a club).
b. to hit (a golf ball) into the air or over an obstacle.
c. to clear (an obstacle) in this manner.
13. to store in a loft.
14. Shipbuilding. to form or describe (the lines of a hull) at full size, as in a mold loft; lay off.
15. Archaic. to provide (a house, barn, etc.) with a loft.
–verb (used without object)
16. to hit or throw something aloft, esp. a ball.
17. to go high into the air when hit, as a ball.
Origin:
bef. 1000; ME lofte (n.), late OE loft < ON lopt upper chamber or region, the air, sky. See lift

Related forms:
loftless, adjective
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Word Origin & History

loft 
"an upper chamber," c.1300, from late O.E. loft "air," from O.N. lopt "air, sky," originally "upper story, loft, attic" (Scand. -pt- pronounced like -ft-), from P.Gmc. *luftuz "air, sky" (cf. O.E. lyft, Du. lucht, O.H.G. luft, Ger. Luft, Goth. luftus "air"). Sense development is from "loft, ceiling" to "sky, air." Buck suggests ult. connection with O.H.G. louft "bark," louba "roof, attic," etc., with development from "bark" to "roof made of bark" to "ceiling," though this did not directly inform the meaning "air, sky." Meaning "gallery in a church" first attested 1504. Verb meaning "to hit a ball high in the air" is first attested 1857, originally in golf. Lofty "exalted" is from 14c.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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