Work on hauling projects, barn raisings and emergency assistance was readily available.
"Frying Pan Farm"
Elizabeth Brown Pryor
Have him at all the tea parties and "the raisings."
"Around The Tea-Table"
T. De Witt Talmage
And ridges of good muscles stiffened now their loins, and their chests were deepening, and at "raisings," when the men and boys of the region wrestled after their work was done, the two were not uncounted.
"A Man and a Woman"
Stanley Waterloo