housing

noun9

1. •
   the buildings where the people of a town or country live, taken all together

   • She lives in low-income housing.
2. •
   The activity of enclosing something or providing a residence for someone.

   • Housing of homeless families is a priority.
3. •
   A mechanical component's container or covering.

   • The gears were grinding against their housing.
4. •
   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.
5. •
   A niche for a statue.
6. •
   A cover or cloth for a horse's saddle, as an ornamental or military appendage; a saddlecloth; a horse cloth; in plural, trappings.
7. •
   An appendage to the harness or collar of a harness.
8. •
   That portion of a mast or bowsprit which is beneath the deck or within the vessel.
9. •
   A houseline.