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barn raising

barn raising is the alternative form of barnraising.

Meaning of barnraising

Noun

barnraising (plural barnraisings)

  1. The collective construction of a barn by members of a community, common in 18th- and 19th-century rural North America, and present-day Mennonite and Amish communities.
    • It was founded on a deep knowledge of human nature; namely, upon the fact that people read most eagerly that which they already know, if it is about themselves or their neighbors, if it is a report of something they have been concerned in, a lecture they have heard, a fair, or festival, or wedding...1904, Charles Dudley Warner, “The American Newspaper”, in The Complete Essays of Charles Dudley Warner

Forms of barn raising

pluralbarn raisings

Questions about barn raising

What is barn raising the alternative form of?
Barn raising is the alternative form of barnraising.

Words near barn raising in the dictionary

  1. barn eggs
  2. barn find
  3. barn finds
  4. barn owl
  5. barn owls
  6. barn raising
  7. barn raisings
  8. barn red
  9. barn reds
  10. barn sale
  11. barn sales

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