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Loft (Verb)

Kick or strike high in the air; "loft a ball".

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging.

Lay out a full-scale working drawing of the lines of a vessel's hull.

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting.

The naval architect carefully lofts the lines of the sailboat to check its stability and performance.
Using software, the shipyard engineers quickly loft the new design, preparing it for construction.
The ship designer begins by lofting a single section, taking special note of its curvature.
To scale up the ferry's design, the shipbuilder must loft each of the six watertight compartments.
Once they have the measurements, they can loft the new sections, modify them if necessary, and then allow cutting of the individual frames for construction.

Store in a loft.

Verbs of buying, selling, owning.

She stored boxes of winter clothes in the loft above her garage.
They carefully lifted the old furniture into the loft for temporary storage.
Her grandma would take items she no longer needed and loft them into the attic for safekeeping.
At the farmhouse, seasonal decorations were lofted into the space above the barn.
She required assistance to loft the heavy boxes filled with old books into the small loft area.

Propel through the air; "The rocket lofted the space shuttle into the air".

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging.

The powerful arm of the catapult will loft heavy boulders at the enemy's fortress walls.
A strong gust of wind will loft the kite above the trees.
The players will loft the ball over the defender's head in the championship match.
Newly launched fireworks will loft high into the sky on New Year's Eve.
The explosion will loft debris hundreds of feet into the air.