[syn: loft, pigeon loft]
VERB (4)
1. store in a loft;
2. propel through the air;
- Example: "The rocket lofted the space shuttle into the air"
3. kick or strike high in the air;
- Example: "loft a ball"
4. lay out a full-scale working drawing of the lines of a vessel's hull;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Loft \Loft\, a.
Lofty; proud. [R. & Obs.] --Surrey.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
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