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barn raising

noun

  1. (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!

Come a muster or a barn raising or an election or anything, Harve Allen fought somebody—and licked him.

It can be made as much of a social institution as corn husking and barn raising were formerly.

I have never seen a prettier barn-raising than that, and I have fiddled at a many since then.

It was like pioneer days, when "barn-raising" and "bees" made life worth while in a wild, stern land.

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