Definition of "sail-loft" [sail-loft]

• A loft or an apartment where sails are cut out and made. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "His fader die, he go to work in Hansen's sail-loft."
• "One would have thought they had been made in a big sail-loft instead of in a snow-drift."
• "On this trip the fore-saloon was converted into a sail-loft, where Rönne and Hansen carried on their work, each in his watch."