| 释义 |
house-raising in American English (ˈhaʊsˌreɪzɪŋ) US noun a gathering of the members of a rural community to help build a neighbor's house or its framework house-raising in American English (ˈhausˌreizɪŋ) nouna gathering of persons in a rural community to help one of its members build a house Word origin [1695–1705, Amer.]This word is first recorded in the period 1695–1705. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: assemblage, chaise, exponential, vector, veneer |