Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A loft or an apartment where sails are cut out and made.
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Examples
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His fader die, he go to work in Hansen's sail-loft.
Chapter 2 2010
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One would have thought they had been made in a big sail-loft instead of in a snow-drift.
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On this trip the fore-saloon was converted into a sail-loft, where Rönne and Hansen carried on their work, each in his watch.
The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912 2003
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One would have thought they had been made in a big sail-loft instead of in a snow-drift.
The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912 2003
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Strawbridge introduced it into New York, and Philip Embury preached his first sermon in a sail-loft.
The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut Maria Louise Greene
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Now the question is: did those words -- the words that came with such power to Frank Bullen in the New Zealand sail-loft, and to Sydney Carton in the Paris streets -- have the same effect upon both?
A Handful of Stars Texts That Have Moved Great Minds Frank Boreham 1915
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He tells how, at a meeting held in a sail-loft at Port
A Handful of Stars Texts That Have Moved Great Minds Frank Boreham 1915
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That Methodists should be liable to such an outcome, and that there should be signs of it in a hundred years from the 'sail-loft,' seems almost the miracle of history; but who that looks about him to-day can fail to see the fact?
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His fader die, he go to work in Hansen's sail-loft.
Chapter 2 1905
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On this trip the fore-saloon was converted into a sail-loft, where
The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the "Fram," 1910-1912 — Volume 2 Roald Amundsen 1900
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