cockloft

• cock loft
• cockleloft

cock +‎ loft

cockloft (plural cocklofts)

1. A small attic or garret
   • 1693, John Dryden, “The Third Satire of Juvenal”, in The Satirs of Decimus Juvenalis:

     For if the lowest floors already burn, / Cocklofts and garrets soon will take the turn.

   • '1716, Alexander Pope, A Further Account of the Most Deplorable Condition of Mr. Edmund Curll, Bookseller:

     All theſe gentlemen appeared at the hour appointed in Mr. Curlls dining-room, two excepted ; one of whom was the gentleman in the cockloft, his landlady being out of the way, and the gradus ad parnaſſum taken down; the other happened to be too cloſely watched by the bailiffs.