Meaning of a-building | Babel Free

Definitions

Being built or under construction, as a structure or a vessel.

not-comparable

Examples

“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.”

“"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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