Definition of "raisings" [raisings]

• Plural form of raising. (noun)

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• "When Billy Louise was twelve, she had other ambitions than the making of cookies with "raisings" on them."
• "I used to promise them cookies with 'raisings' in the middle."
• "It was customary in those days for candidates to attend all manner of neighborhood gatherings -- "raisings" of new cabins, horseraces, shooting-matches, auctions -- anything that served to call the settlers together; and it was social popularity, quite as much as ability to discuss political questions, that carried weight with such assemblies."