house-raiser
now chiefly North American
noun
A person who raises or builds a house; a person or company engaged in house raising.
Origin
Mid 17th century; earliest use found in Henry Wotton (1568–1639), diplomat and writer.
- clergyman
- clergywoman
- cleric
- clerical
- clerical collar
- clerical error
- clericalism
- clericalist
- clerically
- clerihew
- clerisy
- clerk
- clerkdom
- clerkess
- clerk in holy orders
- clerkish
- clerkly
- Clerk of the Closet
- clerk of the course
- Clerk of the Pells
- clerk of the supersedeas
- clerk of (the) works
- clerkship
- Clermont-Ferrand
- cleuch