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house-rais⋅ing

[hous-rey-zing]
–noun
a gathering of persons in a rural community to help one of its members build a house.

Origin:
1695–1705, Americanism
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house-rais·ing   (hous'rā'zĭng)
n.  The construction of a house or its framework by a group of friends or neighbors.
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