a-building

See also: abuilding

English

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

a-building (not comparable)

Being built or under construction, as a structure or a vessel.
- 1890, William Morris, chapter XXVI, in News from Nowhere:
  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, Eric Rücker Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros, 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."

单词	a-building
释义	a-building See also: abuilding English Alternative forms abuilding Etymology a- (“in, on”) +‎ building (“the act or process of building”) Adverb a-building (not comparable) Being built or under construction, as a structure or a vessel. 1890, William Morris, chapter XXVI, in News from Nowhere: 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, Eric Rücker Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros, 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." Anagrams audibling
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