Definition of Houseling

1. a. Same as Housling.

Definition of Houseling

1. Verb. (present participle of housel) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Houseling

1. housel [v] - See also: housel

Lexicographical Neighbors of Houseling

housekeeping protein
housekeepings
housekeeps
housekept
housel
houseled
houseleek
houseleeks
houseless
houselessness
houselessnesses
houselights
houselike
houseline
houselines
houseling (current term)
houselled
houselling
housels
housemade
housemaid
housemaid's knee
housemaided
housemaiding
housemaids
housemartin
housemartins
housemaster
housemasters

Literary usage of Houseling

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Jurist by Great Britain Courts (1865)
"The_ church of the said hospital is the parish church! of itself, and there belongeth to the same about | eighty-nine houseling people, and the said master ..."

2. Notitia Eucharistica: A Commentary, Explanatory, Doctrinal, and Historical by William Edward Scudamore (1876)
"Commonly no other would be needed, but when the people communicated, smaller Hosts were also pT^- vided, which were called houseling-Bread. ..."

3. The Certificates of the Commissioners Appointed to Survey the Chantries by William Page, Great Britain Ecclesiastical Commission (1895)
"Again, it is said there were two thousand houseling people and above at Doncaster ... The returns as to the number of houseling people is very interesting, ..."

4. English Schools at the Reformation 1546-8 by Arthur Francis Leach (1896)
"The population of all these places but one is given in houseling people, ... The number of houseling people given in the different places varies from 240 in ..."

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