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a-building

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Etymology

a- (in, on) +‎ building (the act or process of building)

Adverb

a-building (not web)

  1. Being built or under construction, as a structure or a vessel.
    • 1890, William Morris, web app, chapter XXVI:
      This talk brought us up to the house that was a-building, not a large one, which stood at the end of a beautiful orchard surrounded by an old stone wall.
    • 1922, input transformation, web, page 141:
      "Of these nineteen ships a-building no more than two can take the water before a month be past, and but seven more ere six months' time, push we never so mightily the work."

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