houseline

From house +‎ line.

houseline (plural houselines)

1. (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

• housing

• “houseline”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.