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houselines

houselines is the plural of houseline.

Meaning of houseline

Noun

houseline (plural houselines)

  1. A small line of three strands used for seizing.
    • […]marled on to the sail with marline or houseline, as far as it is sewed1796, David Steel, The Art of Sail-making, as Practised in the Royal Navy
    Synonyms:
    housing

Questions about houselines

What is houselines the plural of?
Houselines is the plural of houseline.

Words near houselines in the dictionary

  1. houselets
  2. houselight
  3. houselights
  4. houselike
  5. houseline
  6. houselines
  7. houseling
  8. houselings
  9. houselled
  10. houselling
  11. housels

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Adapted from Wiktionary: houselines (page history and authors); houseline (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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