loft
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7.1
- noun
- /lɔft/
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palomar
- The farmer built a new loft for his pigeons above the barn.
Examples
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The birdwatcher often visits the loft to check on the health of the nesting pigeons.
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Good post. Get them down from the loft and enjoy.
Blog text (25) -
Sure smells good coming out of that loft of yours.
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Have you checked your loft?
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A ladder led to a sleeping loft.
Fiction book (1996) -
The loft has no cover, no doors to barricade.
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But mostly it smelled of hay, for there was always hay in the great loft up overhead.
Academic text (2009) -
He himself does his reading in his pigeons' loft, allowing them to look over his shoulder.
Fiction book (1999) -
William is in the barn loft, shoveling corn down to feed the hogs, while he glimpses something coming.
Fiction book (1995) -
A stableboy came vaulting out of the loft where he had slept; a dog barked and barked its tardy warning; people began to come out of the house door.
Fiction book (1995)
Synonyms
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1.6
A small building where people keep chickens or other birds
1
8.8
A small building where pigeons or doves live
A small building where people raise and keep pigeons
Compounds
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5.5
A large open space in a converted warehouse where a person who makes art lives and works
- NSFW
A way of dropping bombs by flying low then pulling the plane up before release to escape the blast
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Etymology
Loft for a pigeon shelter comes from the idea of a 'loft' as an upper room or raised space where people kept birds. So a pigeon loft is the raised home where the birds live and return.