An American term for the community event where neighbors come together to help erect the wooden frame of a new house — a tradition rooted in early colonial and frontier life, especially among Amish and Mennonite communities where it still happens today. A houseraising is as much a social gathering as a construction project: people bring food, tools, and labor, and an entire frame goes up in a single day. The term carries warm connotations of community solidarity and collective effort.
The whole township showed up for the houseraising, and by sundown the frame was standing.
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(US) The setting up of the frame of a house.
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