houseline
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Etymology edit
Noun edit
houseline (plural houselines)
- (nautical) A small line of three strands used for seizing.
- 1796, David Steel, The Art of Sail-making, as Practised in the Royal Navy:
- […] marled on to the sail with marline or houseline, as far as it is sewed
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References edit
- “houseline”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.