Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A loft for storing hay.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In a stable or barn, a storing-place for hay.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A loft or scaffold for hay.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The upper
storey of abarn used for storinghay
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a loft in a barn where hay is stored
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Examples
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A cat in a hayloft is a beautiful example of the eternal fitness of things.
The Story Girl Lucy Maud 1911
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And a former abandoned hayloft is a master bedroom, a playroom and a bedroom for 8-year-old son Mark Oliver.
Washington's Horse Slept Here Nancy Keates 2010
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The second floor apparently used to be a hayloft, which is kinda funny.
Archive 2007-10-01 Brooks of Sheffield 2007
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The second floor apparently used to be a hayloft, which is kinda funny.
Central Park Police Station to Be Made Stable Brooks of Sheffield 2007
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A cat in a hayloft is a beautiful example of the eternal fitness of things.
The Story Girl 1908
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There is the farmer's house, the house for guests (in which we lived), the men's house, the dairy, the bakehouse, and the "staboor," which is a kind of hayloft, stable, and manure shed all in one.
Young Knights of the Empire : Their Code, and Further Scout Yarns Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell Baden-Powell of Gilwell 1899
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Sitting in her work space, the "hayloft" of her home - a converted 1890s barn - Peach Carr, a
chicagotribune.com - 2010
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I darted round the edge of the barn, climbed to the hayloft and burrowed under some hay.
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- Despite a background in public health work, Hopkins was a lifelong chain-smoker and coffee drinker – a classic A-type personality who lived in his office and usually looked “as though he had spent the previous night sleeping in a hayloft.”
Matthew Yglesias » Commerce Cabinet Crisis VII: Harry Hopkins 2009
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He could feel it in his bones when there was going to be a stretch of dry days ahead, enough to get all the hay cut, baled, and into the barn hayloft.
Maria Rodale: Bob and Irene Were Farmers Maria Rodale 2011
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