Rais"ing (?), n.
1.
The act of lifting, setting up, elevating, exalting, producing, or restoring to life.
2.
Specifically, the operation or work of setting up the frame of a building; as, to help at a raising.
[U.S.]<-- e.g., barn raising -->
3.
The operation of embossing sheet metal, or of forming it into cup-shaped or hollow articles, by hammering, stamping, or spinning.
Raising bee, a bee for raising the frame of a building. See Bee, n., 2. [U.S.] W. Irving. -- Raising hammer, a hammer with a rounded face, used in raising sheet metal. -- Raising plate Carp., the plate, or longitudinal timber, on which a roof is raised and rests.
© Webster 1913.