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the upstairs room where farms stored summer so winter couldn't win.
means The upper level of a barn used for storing hay, typically reached by a ladder.
from A plain compound of two old workaday words. "Hay" descends from Old English "hīeg" (cut grass), and "loft" comes from Old Norse "lopt" — a word that meant both "air" and "upper room," which is why something held aloft and something stored upstairs share the same root. The Norse sense slipped into English during the Viking-influenced centuries, and the two words eventually clicked together to name exactly what they describe: hay, kept up high.
- fire risk
- Damp hay self-heats and can spontaneously combust
- trapdoor design
- Hay dropped straight down to feed animals below
- big door
- High loft hatch loaded bales by pulley hook
- dry storage
- Elevation kept hay above flood and ground damp
- folk fame
- Sweethearts and hideouts haunt countless barn-loft songs
hayloft bar nashville — honky-tonk on broadway in nashville, tennessee, established 2014
hayloft pizza vermont — restaurant in woodstock, vermont, known for wood-fired pizzas