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raising bee Hist. 
a community-work project and social affair at which neighbors pooled efforts to raise the frame of a house, barn, etc.
See also: barn-raising house-raising raising
- 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 (1964) Some settlers were able to hire workmen to build their houses, though the "raising bee" was much more usual.
- 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.