Lofted

ppl. a. [f. LOFT sb. and v. + -ED.]

  1.  Of a house: † a. Ceiled or floored (obs.). b. (Sc. and north. dial.) Having one or more stories above the ground floor.

1549.  Compl. Scotl., xi. 96. That na Scottis man suld duel in ane house that vas loftit, bot rather in ane litil cot house.

1639.  Declaration, in Athenæum, 19 July (1890), 99/2. The dwelling howse of her brother … was all well lofted and boarded over w^th oken boards.

c. 1730.  Burt, Lett. N. Scotl. (1760), II. xxii. 205. If any one has a Room above, it is by way of Eminence called a lofted House.

1814.  Scott, Wav., xix. A lofted house, that is a building of two stories.

c. 1856.  Denham Tracts (1892), I. 343. The house being what in those districts [Northumberland] is termed lofted.

  2.  Golf. a. Of a cleek or club: Made with a ‘loft’ (see LOFT sb. 7 a). b. Of a stroke: That ‘lofts’ the ball.

1887.  Sir W. G. Simpson, Golf, 158. Certainly a more lofted cleek might be used. Ibid., 159. If a half-topped shot travels further than a lofted one over ordinary turf, the club has too much pitch.

1890.  Hutchinson, Golf (Badm. Libr.), 122. Using … an exceptionally lofted club to obtain the same result. Ibid., 200. The lofted approach is not a fancy shot.