LOFT

I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English, air, sky, from Old Norse lopt; akin to Old High German luft air Date: 13th century an upper room or floor ; attic , 2. a gallery in a church or hall, one of the upper floors of a warehouse or business building especially when not partitioned , hay~ , 3. the backward slant of the face of a golf-club head, the act of ~ing, the thickness of a fabric or insulating material (as goose down), ~like adjective II. verb Date: 1518 transitive verb to place, house, or store in a ~, to propel through the air or into space , to lay out a full-sized working drawing of the lines and contours of (as a ship's hull), intransitive verb to propel a ball high into the air, to rise high