erections

Noun

erection (countable and uncountable, plural erections)

1. (uncountable) The act of building or putting up or together of something.

   Synonyms:

   building, construction

2. (countable) Anything erected or built.
   • The Empire State Building was once the world's tallest erection.

   Synonyms:

   building, construction

3. Formal approval and official establishment of an institution such as a society or a monastery by higher church authorities.
   • There is some obscurity attaching to the only other one of those alleged erections of parishes, the case of Foot Dee, near Aberdeen.1842, Patrick Robertson, Stewarton Case: Report of the Pleadings […] , page 43
4. (uncountable) The physiological process by which erectile tissue, such as a penis or clitoris, becomes erect by being engorged with blood.
   • I think that the case also demonstrates some singular aspects of the penis as a narrator of tales, specifically the way in which the erection of a penis falls outside a man's conscious control and therefore threatens a carefully constructed master legal narrative in which bodily self-control...1997, Alan Hyde, Bodies of Law, Princeton University Press, published 1997, →ISBN, page 175
5. (uncountable) The state or quality of being erect from engorgement with blood.
   • […] but our experienc'd matron very soon, by chafing it with her hands, brought it to swell to that size and erection I had before seen it up to.1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC
6. (countable) A penis or clitoris that is erect.
   • He placed his newspaper on his lap to hide his erection.

   Synonyms:

   babymaker, boner, bone, bonk-on, bonny, chubby, fatty, hard-on, lob-on, lumber