n.
    - a room or storage space directly under the roof of a house or other building. 
▸a gallery in a church or hall.
 ▸a large, open area in a warehouse or other large building that has been converted into living space.
 ▸US part of a room on a higher level than the rest of the room.
 - a pigeon house.
 - Golf  upward inclination given to the ball in a stroke. 
▸backward slope of the head of a club, designed to give such inclination.
 - the thickness of insulating matter in an object such as a sleeping bag.
 
v.
  - kick, hit, or throw (a ball or missile) high up.
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[usu. as adj. lofted]
 give loft to the head of (a golf club).
 
 
  Etymology
  OE, from ON lopt ‘air, upper room’, of Gmc origin.