Hypertext Webster Gateway: "loft"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Loft \Loft\, n. [Icel. lopt air, heaven, loft, upper room; akin
to AS. lyft air, G. luft, Dan. loft loft, Goth. luftus air.
Cf. {Lift}, v. & n. ]
That which is lifted up; an elevation. Hence, especially:
(a) The room or space under a roof and above the ceiling of
the uppermost story.
(b) A gallery or raised apartment in a church, hall, etc.;
as, an organ loft.
(c) A floor or room placed above another; a story.
Eutychus . . . fell down from the third loft.
--Acts xx. 9.
{On loft}, aloft; on high. Cf. {Onloft}. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Loft \Loft\, a.
Lofty; proud. [R. & Obs.] --Surrey.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Loft \Loft\, n. (Golf)
Pitch or slope of the face of a club (tending to drive the
ball upward).
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Loft \Loft\, v. t.
To make or furnish with a loft; to cause to have loft; as, a
lofted house; a lofted golf-club head.
A wooden club with a lofted face. --Encyc. of
Sport.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Loft \Loft\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Lofted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Lofting}.]
To raise aloft; to send into the air; esp. (Golf), to strike
(the ball) so that it will go over an obstacle.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
loft
n 1: floor consisting of a large unpartitioned space over a
factory or warehouse or other commercial space
2: floor consisting of open space at the top of a house just
below roof; often used for storage [syn: {attic}, {garret}]
3: a raised shelter in which pigeons are kept [syn: {pigeon
loft}]
v 1: store in a a loft
2: propel through the air: "The rocket lofted the space shuttle
into the air"
3: kick or strike high in the air, of a ball
4: lay out a full-scale working drawing of the lines of a
vessel's hull
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