, or house-line.
A small line formed of three fine strands, smaller than rope yarn; principally used for seizings of the block-strops, fastening the clues of sails to their bolt-ropes, and other purposes. (See marline, twine.)
·noun A niche for a statue. II. Housing ·noun An appendage to the hames or collar of a harness. II...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
After a ship in building is past the breadth of her bearing, and that she is brought in too narrow t...
The Sailor's Word-Book
Ring-bolts over the lower deck-ports, through the beam-clamps, to which the muzzle-lashings of the g...
That part of a mast which is below deck to the step in the kelson; of a bowsprit, the portion within...