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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
a- (“in, on”) + building (“the act or process of building”)
Adverb
a-building (not web)
- Being built or under construction, as a structure or a vessel.
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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.
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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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1890, William Morris, web app, chapter XXVI: