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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a community-work project and social affair at which neighbors pooled efforts to raise the frame of a house, barn, etc.
Quotations
1832
This kind of work is called a raising Bee, and in the same way assistance is mutually given in beating out the Indian corn from its husks, in what is called a husking Bee.
1879
A number of "raising bees" have taken place in the Pembina Mountain District lately.
1933
Some settlers were able to hire workmen to build their houses, though the "raising bee" was much more usual.