loft

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: {loft}, {attic},
       {garret}]
    3: (golf) the backward slant on the head of some golf clubs that
       is designed to drive the ball high in the air
    4: a raised shelter in which pigeons are kept [syn: {loft},
       {pigeon loft}]
    v 1: store in a loft
    2: propel through the air; "The rocket lofted the space shuttle
       into the air"
    3: kick or strike high in the air; "loft a ball"
    4: lay out a full-scale working drawing of the lines of a
       vessel's hull
    

Loft \Loft\, a.
   Lofty; proud. [R. & Obs.] --Surrey.
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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.
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         A wooden club with a lofted face.        --Encyc. of
                                                  Sport.
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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.
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Loft \Loft\ (l[o^]ft), 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. ]
   1. 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.
          especially, an upper story located in a building with
          a business below, often having no partitions, and in
          cities sometimes converted into living quarters, or
          used as studios for artists.
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                Eutychus . . . fell down from the third loft.
                                                  --Acts xx. 9.
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   2. (Golf) Pitch or slope of the face of a club (tending to
      drive the ball upward).
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   {On loft}, aloft; on high. Cf. {Onloft}. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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45 Moby Thesaurus words for "loft":
      agency, atelier, attic, attic room, barbershop, beauty parlor,
      beauty shop, bench, butcher shop, cockloft, company, concern,
      corporation, desk, establishment, facility, firm, garret, hayloft,
      house, installation, institution, junk room, library, lumber room,
      office, organization, parlor, sail loft, shop, sky parlor, stacks,
      storeroom, studio, study, sweatshop, work site, work space,
      workbench, workhouse, working space, workplace, workroom, workshop,
      worktable