housing

Meanings

Verb

• Present participle of house

Noun

• The activity of enclosing something or providing a residence for someone.
• Residences, collectively.
• A mechanical component's container or covering.
• A cover or cloth for a horse's saddle, as an ornamental or military appendage; a saddlecloth; a horse cloth; in plural, trappings.
• An appendage to the harness or collar of a harness.
• The space taken out of one solid to admit the insertion of part of another, such as the end of one timber in the side of another.
• A niche for a statue.
• That portion of a mast or bowsprit which is beneath the deck or within the vessel.
• A houseline.

Related

Similar words

• accommodation, lodging
• case, casing, cover, covering, lid

Origin

• From house + -ing.
• From Middle English housyng, housinge, howsynge, from Old English *hūsung, from Old English hūsian, equivalent to house + -ing. Cognate with Scots housing, Dutch huizing, behuizing, Low German husing, hüsing, German Behausung.