noun

• (uncountable) The activity of enclosing something or providing a residence for someone.
• (uncountable) Residences, collectively.
• (countable) A mechanical component's container or covering.
• A cover or cloth for a horse's saddle, as an ornamental or military appendage; a saddlecloth; a horse cloth; in plural, trappings.
• An appendage to the harness or collar of a harness.
• (architecture) 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.
• A niche for a statue.
• (nautical) That portion of a mast or bowsprit which is beneath the deck or within the vessel.
• (nautical) A houseline.