Usage examples (34)

• The audience numbered nearly two thousand, pit, gallery and cockloft being filled to overflowing.
• Ah, well! there are piles of dusty memories in the old cockloft still untouched, but I shall rummage no more to-night.
• A few roughly fashioned seats and tables, and a ladder staircase, leading upward to an attic or cockloft, completes the inventory of the interior.
• After the stranger had gone she went to the cockloft to look for her well-dressed favourites, but they had disappeared, and they were never seen afterwards, for they...