housing

housing has 14 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 7.

Definitions

• p. pr. & vb. n.. of House
• n.. The act of putting or receiving under shelter; the state of dwelling in a habitation.
• n.. That which shelters or covers; houses, taken collectively.
• n.. The space taken out of one solid, to admit the insertion of part of another, as the end of one timber in the side of another.
• n.. A niche for a statue.
• n.. A frame or support for holding something in place, as journal boxes, etc.
• n.. That portion of a mast or bowsprit which is beneath the deck or within the vessel.
• n.. A covering or protection, as an awning over the deck of a ship when laid up.
• n.. A houseline. See Houseline.
• n.. A cover or cloth for a horse's saddle, as an ornamental or military appendage; a saddlecloth; a horse cloth; in plural, trappings.
• n.. An appendage to the hames or collar of a harness.
• n.. stable gear consisting of a decorated covering for a horse, especially (formerly) for a warhorse