Other forms: haylofts
A hayloft is the upper storey of a barn where dried grass is kept. Up in the hayloft, sleep in the hayloft, the hayloft door.
Storing it high kept the hay dry and let it be dropped straight down to the animals below. The high door in a barn gable is the hayloft door, where bales were hauled up from a cart.
1nounhayloftThe upper storey of a barn where dried grass is kept.
“As children, we used to hide in the hayloft above the cows.”
hayloft is a loft.
From hay + loft.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA