Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Loft \Loft\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Lofted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Lofting}.]
   To raise aloft; to send into the air; esp. (Golf), to strike
   (the ball) so that it will go over an obstacle.