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1796 H. More Way to Plenty 7 All the workmen were looking forward to the usual holiday of roof-raising.

1842 Ld. Tennyson Day-dream in Poems (new ed.) II. 150 Roof-haunting martins warm their eggs.

1849 Ecclesiologist 9 357 (note) The metal-work required for roof-draining.

1861 T. P. Thompson Audi Alteram Partem III. clxx. 197 A provision..beneath the talents of the roof-building ape.

1895 Westm. Gaz. 3 Sept. 8/1 Luxuriant shrubs, and roof-reaching roses.

1920 W. B. Yeats Michael Robartes & Dancer 20 And one bare hill Whereby the haystack and roof-levelling wind..can be stayed.

1931 C. G. Dobson (title) Roof tiling.

1933 A. Nin Let. 24 July in A. Nin & H. Miller Literate Passion (1989) 191 I am going to have one roof-raising talk with Rank on the subject.

1979 I. H. Seeley Building Quantities Explained (ed. 3) viii. 116/5 Take roof tiling adjustments first followed by the leadwork around the opening.

1989 A. Fine Goggle-eyes (1990) vii. 111 Jude narrowed her eyes. It was a toss-up, I reckoned, between heart-rending sobs and roof-raising temper.

2007 R. Lovegrove Silent Fields iii. 59 The narcotic chemical alphachloralose is available..as a means of controlling pest levels of species such as urban pigeons or occasionally ‘plague’ numbers of roof-nesting gulls in seaside towns.