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barn raising
noun
- (in rural areas) a party, usually providing food, drink, etc., for the purpose of assisting a neighbor to put up a new barn.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of barn raising1
An Americanism dating back to 1855–60
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Example Sentences
Five years from spring, other Amish folk would come to homestead—what a barn-raising they'd have!
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Come a muster or a barn raising or an election or anything, Harve Allen fought somebody—and licked him.
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It can be made as much of a social institution as corn husking and barn raising were formerly.
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I have never seen a prettier barn-raising than that, and I have fiddled at a many since then.
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It was like pioneer days, when "barn-raising" and "bees" made life worth while in a wild, stern land.
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