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raisingn.1

Brit. /ˈreɪzɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈreɪzɪŋ/
Forms:

α. Old English ræsn, Middle English ramsone (transmission error), Middle English rasewe (transmission error), Middle English rasne, Middle English rasone, Middle English 1600s–1700s (1900s– historical) rasen.

β. Middle English reysing, Middle English reyson, 1500s raisin, 1500s raysin, 1500s reisin, 1600s– raising, 1700s raison.

Origin: Of uncertain origin.
Etymology: Origin uncertain. Perhaps related to earn n.1 (see discussion at that entry). The β. forms show the influence of raising n.2, with which the word was associated in later use (compare later raising-piece n.1, raising plate n.). Compare also later reason n.2Also attested early in the place name Resne (1086), Rasne (12th cent.), (æt) Ræsnan (13th cent. in a copy of a charter of 973), now Market Rasen, Lincolnshire, probably originally denoting a plank bridge.
Now historical and rare.
A beam, plank, or piece of timber; spec. = wall-plate n. 1. Cf. raising-piece n.1, raising plate n.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > framework of building > [noun] > joist > support for
raisingeOE
raising-piece1286
summer1324
reasonc1330
rib-reasonc1350
wall-plate1394
wall-plat1420
summer-piecec1429
summer-tree1452
resourc1493
summer beam1519
wall-rase1523
girt1579
bridle1587
girder1611
out-footing1611
sommier1623
raising plate1637
trimmer1654
main beama1657
corbel1679
dwarf1718
brick trimmer1774
summer stonea1782
tail-trimmer1823
wood brick1842
eOE Cleopatra Gloss. in W. G. Stryker Lat.-Old Eng. Gloss. in MS Cotton Cleopatra A.III (Ph.D. diss., Stanford Univ.) (1951) 276 Laquear, ræsn.
OE Ælfric Gram. (St. John's Oxf.) 43 Naman generis feminini [read mascvlini]:..uenter wamb, asser ræsn, anser gandra.
1338 in J. H. Parker Gloss. Terms Archit. (ed. 5) I. 380 Item in vj peciis meremii emptis pro rasens ad eandem domum.
1423 in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 162 Þe wheche Reysons Shull be suffisauntly bounde with two grete bemes with ynne þe same halle.
1491 in L. F. Salzman Building in Eng. (1992) App. B. 551 Fro the flore to the reysing ix fote.
1577 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Islande Brit. ii. x. f. 84v/2, in R. Holinshed Chron. I To vse no studdes at all, but only raysines, groundselles, transomes, and vpright principalles.
1639 Acad. Drama Cambr. in Collections (1923) II. 204 Three Raisings or Jeece peeced in their middles lying from West to East.
1691 J. Ray N. Country Words in Coll. Eng. Words (ed. 2) 54 Pan..is that piece of Wood that lies upon the top of the Stone-Wall,..to which the bottom of the Spars are fastned: in Timber Buildings in the South, it is called the Rasen or Resen, or Resening.
1703 R. Neve City & Countrey Purchaser 30 Tennons are..made on the Posts to go into the Raisons.
1734 Builders' Dict. Beam filling in building is plaisterer's work, and is the filling up the vacant space between the raison and the roof.
?1790 Proposal Several Artificers Wks. Suffolk 3 All the Roof to Lean-to's, over the Oven, Bog-houses, and Hog-styes, &c. to be done with proper Scantlings of Fir and Raisings.
1846 A. H. Holdsworth Brit. Patent 11,356 (1857) 3 [I] would attach to each side of the boat six tubes,..four of these I would secure..to the raisings below the thwarts, and two such tubes also to the raisings above the thwarts.
1994 A. H. Nelson Early Cambr. Theatres 163 The joists of Queens' College stage platform, which lie over the raisings, are an exception.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

raisingn.2

Brit. /ˈreɪzɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈreɪzɪŋ/
Forms: see raise v.1 and -ing suffix1; also 1500s ressynge, 1600s raiseing, 1600s rayseing; Scottish pre-1700 raisein, pre-1700 raiseing, pre-1700 raseing, pre-1700 rasene, pre-1700 rassyng.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: raise v.1, -ing suffix1.
Etymology: < raise v.1 + -ing suffix1.
1.
a. The action of raising something (in various senses) or †of being raised (obsolete). Frequently as the final element in compounds.barn-, chicken-, dust-, fire-raising, etc.; consciousness-, fund-, morale-raising, etc.: see the first element.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > bridge > [noun] > actions or tactics > call > bidding
flag-flying1889
redoubling1899
auction1908
overbidding1912
pre-emption1924
save1927
raising1929
cue-bidding1932
sacrifice bid1932
sign-off1932
sign-off bid1932
protection1952
sacrifice1952
sacrifice bidding1959
a1400 in C. Brown Relig. Lyrics 14th Cent. (1924) 233 (MED) Help vs þat of þe makeþ mynde, And doun beþ falle, Þorgh þe reisinge to finde.
a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Judith xiv. 9 Thei..camen and maden noise..for cause of reisyng [a1382 E.V. to reren hym; L. excitandi].
1455 Charter in Liber Eccl. de Scon (Bannatyne Club) 185 In the lifting and raising of the saidez fourti schillingis ȝerly.
c1484 (a1475) J. de Caritate tr. Secreta Secret. (Takamiya) (1977) 147 (MED) The tokynys of a febyl stomak and of febyl dygestyon be þise..reysing of wynde at þe mowth, qwyche is clepy[d] bolkyng.
1511 Pylgrymage Richarde Guylforde (Pynson) f. xviij The very hooly Crosse was prouyd by reysinge of a deed woman.
c1520 in B. Cusack Everyday Eng. 1500–1700 (1998) 53 Also rasyng off the garthyng wt ye ȝattis and payllis wt sertan frutt threys cost me Redy mony.
1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Descerco The raising of a siege.
1622 E. Misselden Free Trade 106 The dearenesse of things, which the Raising of Money bringeth with it.
1624 H. Wotton Elements Archit. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1672) 52 Force consisteth in the Roundings and Raisings of the Work, according as the Limbs do more or less require it.
1706 J. Ward Introd. Math. (1734) ii. ii. §5 154 Involution is the Raising or Producing of Powers from any proposed Root.
1781 W. Cowper Let. 8 Apr. (1979) I. 464 I send a Cucumber, not of my own raising.
1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth ii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 38 A sign from Catharine, if that slight raising of her little finger was indeed a sign.
1842 C. Dickens Amer. Notes II. ii. 58 Down Easters and men of Boston raising.
1894 A. B. Gomme Trad. Games I. 107 The pulling of the hands backwards and forwards may be taken to indicate the raising of water from a well.
1929 M. C. Work Compl. Contract Bridge p. xv Any advice given for bidding, raising, etc., applies when the score is ‘love-all’.
1946 Fresno (Calif.) Bee 24 Sept. 16/4 I do not believe in using too much psychology in the raising of children.
1997 B. MacLaverty Grace Notes (1998) 9 Nothing to do with the betterment of mankind or the raising of the human spirit.
2002 Times 18 Jan. i. 23/4 Bailey's most conspicuous work, however, was the raising of stones, including fallen Trilithons, at Stonehenge.
b. An instance of raising something; (North American) = house raising n. at house n.1 and int. Compounds 10. Cf. raising bee n. at Compounds 2, raise v.1 8.
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > [noun] > constructing framework of building
raising1651
carcassing1881
a1425 (?c1384) J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) III. 361 Suspendingis, enterditingis, cursingis, and reisingis of croiserie.
c1475 (a1400) J. Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 341 (MED) Þre reisyngis of dede bodies þat crist dide.
1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xxvii. xii. 324 Sapor,..by way of open reises and raisings of booties wasted all Armenia.
1651 Rec. Waterhouse, Mass. (1894) I. i. 29 [For] raising of the howse.
1758 I. Fletcher Diary 23 Aug. (1994) 52 Went to Whinney to a timber raising. I think near 100 people there; plenty of meat & drink & very good.
1772 M. Cutler Jrnl. 14 May in W. P. Cutler & J. P. Cutler Life, Jrnls. & Corr. M. Cutler (1888) I. 38 At Robert Dodge's, at a raising.
1856 G. Davis Hist. Sketch Stockbridge & Southbridge, Mass. 174 Raisings were also considered as an affair of similar interest, followed by an entertainment of good things.
1861 R. C. Trench Comm. Epist. 7 Churches Asia 11 Such raisings from the dead as that of the widow's son.
1874 R. Brown Man. Bot. iv. i. 561 The lower petal or labellum exercises somewhat spontaneous movements, consisting of a raising and depression of the labellum at intervals of a few minutes.
1906 ‘R. Connor’ Doctor 33 I have never done anything but carry pins and braces at a raising all my life.
1932 Lowell (Mass.) Sun 31 May 1/3 A raising of the income schedules was voted by the senate itself before the president appeared.
1990 Opera Now May 24/4 The result is characteristically a raising, freeing and thinning of the tone.
c. With up: = senses 1a, 1b. In later use esp.: upbringing; nurturing.
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society > education > upbringing > [noun]
nourishingc1325
nurturec1330
afaitementc1400
nurseryc1400
nortelryc1405
alterage?c1450
nouriturec1450
rulec1525
upbringingc1525
education1527
nourituring1555
nutriture1567
breeding1577
nurturing1578
nuzzling1586
rearing1611
frame1632
seasoning1649
nurtureship1837
child-rearing1842
paedotrophy1857
raising1929
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 428 Reysynge vp, elevacio.
1483 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 89074) (1881) 299 A Raysynge vpe, exitacio, suscitacio.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 260/2 Raysing up of a thyng, leuee.
1569 A. Golding tr. N. Hemmingsen Postill (new ed.) f. 16v The vse and profite of this most high Article, may bee seen in strengthening and raising vp of mens consciences.
1597 J. Gerard Herball iii. 1256 Almonds..serue for the raising vp of flegme and rotten matter.
1605 T. Playfere Sick-mans Couch 38 After their raising vp, Iairus daughter straight way arose and walked.
1630 R. Sibbes Bruised Reede iii. 306 And being falne, in our raisings up againe it is Christ that must doe the worke.
1684 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 2nd Pt. 67 The reason of the raising up of that Stage. View more context for this quotation
1751 B. Holloway Originals Physical & Theol. II. 93 Healing is a Kind of raising up of the Body.
1794 G. Adams Lect. Nat. & Exper. Philos. III. xxxi. 299 One considerable use of the wedge, is the raising up the beam of a house, to underprop it, when a floor begins to give way.
1849 Amer. Whig Rev. Apr. 367 The main energies of the government must be directed to the raising up of the inferior orders.
1929 D. Runyon in Cosmopolitan Oct. 63/1 Madame La Gimp figures a baby is not apt to get much raising-up off of her as long as she is on Broadway.
1972 J. S. Hall Sayings from Old Smoky 113 In my raisin' up two or three besides your own would set up with sick people.
2000 Rev. Politics 62 140 The raising up of a South Indian elite deeply informed by the personalities and thought of a number of remarkable missionaries.
d. Curling. The action of driving a partner's stone into one of the circles round the tee.
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1844 J. Ballantine Miller of Deanhaugh i. 16 They knew..the fittest persons to superintend are the important movements connected with guarding, raising, and chipping the winner.
1892 J. Kerr in Skating, Curling, etc. 385 Every competitor shall play four shots at..raising, and chipping the winner.
1914 J. Gordon Grant Compl. Curler ii. ix. 141 Every competitor has to play four shots at each of the nine following ‘points’ of the game, namely, Striking, Inwicking, Drawing, Guarding, Chap and Lie, Wick and Curl in, Raising, Chipping the Winner, and Drawing through a Port.
1969 R. Welsh Beginner's Guide to Curling x. 76 You will also enlarge your repertoire of shots—by guarding, wicking, drawing through a port, raising and striking.
e. Phonetics. Articulation (of a vowel) with the tongue closer to the roof of the mouth; an instance of this. Cf. raise v.1 19g.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > vowel > [noun] > types of > articulation of
rounding1833
labialism1869
labialization1869
obscuring1873
raising1874
unrounding1874
reduction1885
delabialization1907
r-colour1935
centralization1939
vowel-laxing1977
1874 H. Sweet in Trans. Philol. Soc. 1873–4 15 533 This anomalous raising of a short vowel [sc. ceb for cæb] is gradually spreading among the upper classes.
1909 O. Jespersen Mod. Eng. Gram. i. viii. 231 The great vowel-shift consists in a general raising of all long vowels with the exception of the two high vowels.
1934 C. Davies Eng. Pronunc. 7 From the fourteenth century on this vowel [sc. ME. ǭ] underwent a gradual raising and rounding.
1959 A. Campbell Old Eng. Gram. 71 Just as all back vowels are subject to fronting by i-umlaut, so certain front vowels are subject to raising.
1992 J. Milroy Ling. Variation & Change v. 156 It is not impossible that hendes, bend attest to pre-dental raisings.
2. Something that is raised above its surroundings; a raised place. Also with up. Obsolete.
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the world > space > extension in space > expansion or enlargement > [noun] > distension > swelling or swollenness > swelling up
raisinga1425
puffing1495
upswelling1548
uprising1598
heave1833
the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > vertical extent > [noun] > above a certain level > making high(er)
raisinga1425
toweringc1440
heightening1598
the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > rising ground or eminence > [noun]
link931
rise1240
motea1300
bentc1405
mote-hill1475
territory1477
height1487
rising1548
raising1572
linch1591
mount1591
swelling1630
up1637
vertex1641
advance1655
ascendant1655
eminency1662
ascent1663
eminence1670
swell1764
elevation1799
embreastment1799
upwith1819
lift1825
salita1910
turtle-back1913
upwarp1917
upslope1920
whaleback1928
the world > space > relative position > high position > [noun] > quality of being raised or elevated > raised or elevated part
raising1658
upturn1868
a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Psalms xcii. 4 The reisyngis [a1382 E.V. wawis] of the see ben wondurful.
c1450 C. d'Orleans Poems (1941) 168 Hir crowne was made with wawis nyse... The reysyng vp with flowre delise.
1572 J. Higgins Huloets Dict. (rev. ed.) Raysing, or going vp of a hyll, accliuitas.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Condol, a ridge or raising of earth.
1658 W. Johnson tr. F. Würtz Surgeons Guid ii. xxviii. 196 The place..is hard and red, and a raising is there.
a1706 J. Evelyn Direct. for Gardiner (1932) 79 The fresh raisings of Moll-hills.
1742 G. Leoni tr. A. Palladio Architecture I. 64 The floor of the Chambers is raised thirteen foot from..the ground..; and below under the raising of the thirteen foot, are the Cellars.
1832 Skyring's Builder's Prices (ed. 22) 42 If raised panels, add from whence the article arises. If moulded raisings, add [etc.].
3.
a. A crop or plant that has been raised. rare.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > crop or crops > [noun]
wastumc888
tiltha1100
estrea1300
madder-cropc1300
gainage1390
cropa1400
yieldingc1405
emblement1495
burden?1523
increase1535
field-ware1546
gather1555
esplees1598
husbandrya1616
glebe1660
warea1661
récolte1669
tilling1680
tillage1681
stuffa1687
growing1722
bearing1747
raccolta1748
the crops1789
plant1832
raising1857
cropping1861
1857 Hunt's Merchants' Mag. 36 755 Mr. Pease claimed it [sc. the tobacco] as his own raising and pointed to his mark to corroborate his statement.
1869 Daily News 8 Dec. Its most important ‘raisings’ are in wheat, oats, maize, tobacco, grapes, &c.
2001 Independent 5 May (Weekend Review section) 13/4 Tree buffs should note that the original raisings of Lawson cypress..still stand in the garden.
b. Mining. In plural = get n.1 1b. Obsolete.
ΚΠ
1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining 198 Raisings (F[orest of] D[ean]). See Get.

Compounds

C1.
raising-knife n. Obsolete
ΚΠ
1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Green plot They put the Raising Knife under the Turf and raise it up.
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 1874/1 Raising-knife, a knife employed by coopers in setting up the staves in form for a cask.
raising machine n.
ΚΠ
1853 A. Ure Dict. Arts (ed. 4) II. 864 Model of a raising machine for raising dish covers, 1½ inch in scale.
?1881 Census Eng. & Wales: Instr. Clerks classifying Occupations & Ages (?1885) 254 Raising Machine Minder.
1952 Chambers's Jrnl. Aug. 455/1 At one time teazles were always used for cloth-raising, but nowadays the process is often carried out on a card-wire raising-machine.
1999 Textile Month May 87/1 (advt.) Tomlinson electro-zero raising machine.
raising motion n.
ΚΠ
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1230 The raising motion is effected by coupling the leaf to one end of its correspondent top lever.
1996 A. Cook Burden of Prophecy i.1 It more strongly suggests a raising motion than does the English word ‘burden’, which is derived from ‘bear’.
raising tool n.
ΚΠ
1884 Birmingham Daily Post 23 Feb. 3/5 Steel-pen Trade.—Wanted, a Raising-Tool Maker.
1905 Burlington Mag. June 243/2 The silver-lover must recognize the beauty and power that lay in the hammer, the raising tools and tracers of a..worker such as Marks.
raising-wheel n. Obsolete
ΚΠ
1824 G. Douglas in Prize-ess. & Trans. Highland Soc. Scotl. 6 105 The crank must revolve nearly 13 times to give the raising-wheel one revolution.
C2.
raising agent n. Baking a substance, such as yeast or baking powder, which is used in dough or batter to make it rise during (and sometimes before) baking.
ΚΠ
1885 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 11 Oct. 10/2 It [sc. baking powder] should certainly be preferred as a ‘raising agent’.
1984 R. Feild Irons in Fire v. 127 Her predecessor..was trying out something entirely new as a raising agent: bicarbonate of soda, otherwise known as pearlash.
2001 P. Barham Sci. Cooking x. 152 The second method is to use a raising agent, baking powder, added to the flour.
raising bee n. North American (now historical) a gathering of people to give assistance in raising the framework of a house or barn.
ΚΠ
1813 S. Williston Five Disc. on Sabbath 39 It is sinful to order business so as just to get out of the market, the merchant's store, the justice's court,..the raising-bee, [etc.].
1832 ‘M. Doyle’ Hints on Emigration to Upper Canada 45 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.
1848 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. (rev. ed.) vii. ii. 388Raising bees’ also were frequent.
1900 F. Mather In Louisiana Lowlands 88 It was..somewhat like a ‘raising bee’ in the North, where the neighbors put up a man's house or barn from material already prepared.
2001 Early Amer. Life 1 Dec. 52 They organized raising bees in which many men joined to lift heavy timbers into place.
raising-board n. Obsolete a corrugated board used in raising the grain of leather.
ΚΠ
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 1874/1 Raising-board (Leather-working), a corrugated board which is rubbed upon leather after it has been tanned, shaved, daubed, and dried, in order to raise the grain. A crippler.
raising cloth n. Textiles a cloth with a nap which is suitable for raising (cf. raise v.1 33a).
ΚΠ
1910 Encycl. Brit. VII. 277/2 The essence of the raising-cloth is a weft that will provide plenty of nap and yet have sufficient fibre to maintain the strength of the web.
1956 Times 3 Dec. 15/2 Strong rayon staple..is now being sampled for a whole range of fabrics, including raising cloths in very coarse counts.
raising cord n. Weaving Obsolete any one of the strings in a loom; (also) any of the threads of a warp as represented on a piece of design paper; contrasted with sinking cord; see cord n.1 10.
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1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1230 The dots, spots, or ciphers which denote the raising cords.
1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) III. 980 To cord the treddle 1, to the back leaf, put a raising cord, and to each of the other four sinking cords.
raising dinner n. North American rare (now historical) a dinner given at a house raising.
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1702 in New-Eng. Historical & Geneal. Reg. (1879) 33 176 Provide a Raysing Dinner for the Raysing the Schoolmasters House.
1902 Hartford (Connecticut) Courant 11 Jan. 15 (heading) She fondly remembers her log cabin, the ‘raising’ dinner, the home-made furniture, the daily tasks and joys.
raising gig n. = gig-mill n. a.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > treating or processing textile fabric > [noun] > putting nap on > machine
gig-mill1551
gigging-mill1789
raising gig1804
teasel1835
gig1842
gigging-machine1875
nappera1884
1804 Leeds Intelligencer 13 Aug. 4/5 To be sold... One Raising or Brushing Gigg, with Geering complete.
a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. II. 1874/1 Raising gig (Cloth manufacture), a machine for raising a nap on cloth. A gig-machine.
1952 Chambers's Jrnl. Aug. 455/2 For really fine-quality face cloths..nothing has yet been found to equal the..traditional west of England teazle raising-gig.
2002 Gloucester Citizen (Nexis) 8 Apr. (Agency section) 4 If you do not know what raising gigs or fulling stocks are..now is the chance to enjoy them in action.
raising gin n. Obsolete = gin n.1 8a.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > lifting or hoisting equipment > [noun] > shear-legs or gin
gin1398
lading gin1497
raising gin1497
shearsa1625
Jack1686
triangle1691
crab1739
shear-legs1860
1497 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 91 Resing gynne of xiij peces with apparell.
1497 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 104 Shipping crane with a Reysing gynne.
raising hammer n. a hammer used to give metal a rounded form (cf. raise v.1 33d).
ΚΠ
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. ix. 381/1 The Spoon Hammer, is made after the same form, but it is larger than the raising Hammer, for their way and use in working.
1846 C. Holtzapffel Turning & Mech. Manip. II. 404 Figure 277 shows the narrow edge of the raising-hammer, in the act of descending.
1949 Amer. Jrnl Archaeol. 53 95 The raising hammer..has two faces, each not less than 1¼ inches wide.
2006 South Bend (Indiana) Tribune (Nexis) 5 Nov. (Intermission section) 1 As Latowski waits for the steel bar to reach 1300 degrees Fahrenheit, he picks up two raising hammers.
raising-pair n. Obsolete a framework used in mining.
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society > occupation and work > industry > mining > [noun] > excavating or sinking of shaft
sinking1613
raising-pair1747
stoping1778
sumping1824
drifting1853
shafting1872
1747 W. Hooson Miners Dict. sig. Qiij Raising-Pair... The use for these is, when we begin at the Bottom of any wide Pit at the Day to Sink, we rise with these Pair upwards.
raising room n. Obsolete a room where cloth is raised (cf. raise v.1 33a).
ΚΠ
1835 A. Ure Philos. Manuf. 203 The cloth passes several times to and from the raising and cutting-rooms.
raising vat n. Tanning Obsolete a vat in which a hide is raised (cf. raise v.1 33c).
ΚΠ
1852 C. Morfit Arts of Tanning, Currying, & Leather-dressing xiii. 197 The last raising vat, which contains the strongest tan-liquor.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

raisingn.3

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: raise v.2, -ing suffix1.
Etymology: < raise v.2 + -ing suffix1.
Obsolete.
The action of raise v.2 Also concrete: a cut or tear.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > cutting > [noun] > a cut or incision
garse?c1225
chinea1387
slit1398
incisionc1400
slivingc1400
raising?a1425
scotchc1450
racec1500
tranchec1500
kerf?1523
hack1555
slash1580
hew1596
raze1596
incutting1598
slisha1616
scar1653
lancementa1655
slap1688
slip1688
nick1692
streak1725
sneck1768
snick1775
rut1785
sliver1806
overcut1874
?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 136v Often tymes..þe disposicion nedeþ wirching with raisyng [L. rasione] with a radie suple or wiþ a knotty threde.
1530–1 Act 22 Hen. VIII c. 15 Excepted always..all raysynge of recordes.
1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 71 v As many iagges, blysters and scarres, shall Toades..make on your pure skinnes in the graue, as nowe you haue cuts, iagges or raysings, vp on your garments.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2019).

raisingadj.

Brit. /ˈreɪzɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈreɪzɪŋ/
Forms: see raise v.1 and -ing suffix2.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: raise v.1, -ing suffix2.
Etymology: < raise v.1 + -ing suffix2.
That raises someone or something (in various senses). Cf. self-raising adj.grain-, log-, mound-raising, etc.; hackle-, hell-raising, etc.: see the first element.
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?a1450 in C. von Nolcken Middle Eng. Transl. Rosarium Theol. (1979) 56 (MED) To louse þam whome we knowe our Maker for to quickene be reisyng grace.
c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 68 (MED) We owe to lowse bi autorite of herd wam we know our autor to haue quicknid be grace resing.
1609 W. M. Man in Moone sig. D Their followers; who, by the raising hand of their Lords assistance, have ascended many high and loftie steppes of dignity.
1738 R. Davis Hymns (ed. 5) v. 194 Do thou but lend thy raising Hand.
1762 in H. Bouquet Papers (1940) Ser. 21653. 102 I..Sent Part of the Garrison..to the upper Town upon a raising ground.
?1775 ‘Lucius’ Sarum 2 Rude heaps of massy stones confus'dly stand, Their use unknown as whose the raising hand.
1910 J. London Burning Daylight i. ii. 16 ‘I ain't got a hunch, but I got a tolerable likable hand,’ Campbell announced, as he slid in his slip; ‘but it's not a raising hand.’
1995 A. Abeillé in M. Everaert et al. Idioms i. 32 Most idioms allow the insertion of a raising verb between a frozen subject and a frozen verb.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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