資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Loft \Loft\, 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. ]
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.
Eutychus . . . fell down from the third loft.
--Acts xx. 9.
{On loft}, aloft; on high. Cf. {Onloft}. [Obs.] --Chaucer.