noun.
The inboard end of the bowsprit: also, that part of a mast that is below the upper or spar-deck.
noun.
A covering; specifically, the trappings or caparison of a horse; especially, a complete covering used for defense or to cover and conceal defensive armor, or for ceremonial purposes only: generally in the plural. Compare trapping, bard, caparison.
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The leather fastened at a horse's collar to turn over the back when it rains.
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The act of putting in a house or under shelter.
noun.
The building of houses.
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A collection or range of houses.
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Provision of house or shelter; the act of providing with houses: as, the housing of the poor.
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Any covering or shelter, as a protection for a vessel laid up in a dock.
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In carpentry, the space taken out of one piece to admit of the insertion of the extremity of another, for the purpose of connecting them.
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In architecture, a niche for a statue.
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Nautical, same as house-line.
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In machinery: The part of the framing which holds a journal-box in place: called in the United States a jaw.
noun.
The uprights supporting the cross-slide of a planer.
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One of the lateral plates of the box of a car-axle; a housing-box; a journal-box.
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All that appertains to the house or homestead, its outbuildings, etc.