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 a barn used for storing hay

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

  • A cat in a hayloft is a beautiful example of the eternal fitness of things.

    The Story Girl Lucy Maud 1911

  • 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

  • The second floor apparently used to be a hayloft, which is kinda funny.

    Archive 2007-10-01 Brooks of Sheffield 2007

  • 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

  • A cat in a hayloft is a beautiful example of the eternal fitness of things.

    The Story Girl 1908

  • 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

  • Sitting in her work space, the "hayloft" of her home - a converted 1890s barn - Peach Carr, a

    chicagotribune.com - 2010

  • I darted round the edge of the barn, climbed to the hayloft and burrowed under some hay.

    Walter (Bill) Gossner 2010

  • - 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

  • 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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