BUILD, BUILDER, BUILDING, BUILT
ADJECTIVES
1380 — YBULD built → obs.
1470 — EDIFICATE built up, constructed, formed, instituted, arranged → obs.
1658 — EDIFICIAL pert. to building, architectural
1662 — EDIFYING that builds → obs.
1678 — OECODOMICAL relating to the building of houses; architectural → obs.
1790 — GABBARD of a building: large and old, out of repair → Eng. dial.
..L18 — PUKKA of a building: solidly built
1813 — BIGGIT built → Sc.
1824 — RICKLED loosely built, piled loosely together → Sc.
1824 — TAPERED of a building: high and frail → Sc. obs.
1883 — JERRY-BUILT built in the worst materials → sl.
1883 — SHAM-BUILT poorly built → Amer. dial.
1905 — VOID of a building: empty, untenanted → Sc. & Eng. dial. (Bk.)
NOUNS
..750 — TIMBER a building, structure, edifice, or house → obs.
1000 — TIMBER the process of building → obs.
1382 — FALLING a fragment of a building, a ruin
1432 — EDIFICATION a building → obs.
1432 — EDIFYING the act or process of building; also, a building → obs.
1483 — FABRIC a building; an edifice
1541 — BASILICA a large oblong building or hall, with double colonnades and a semicircular apse at the end, used for a court of justice and place of public assembly
1549 — EDIFICATION building
1580 — EDIFICE the act or process of building or construction → obs.
1581 — HOUSE OF WAR a fortified building or place → obs.
1597 — JAMB a projecting ‘wing’ of a building → obs.
1648 — FACIATE the facade or front of a building → obs.
1667 — BABEL a high building, a lofty structure
1677 — CASE the outer part of a building or house; the shell or carcass
1679 — BASTIMENT a building, a wall → obs.
1687 — COB-CASTLE a satirical name for any building which overtops those around it; more usually applied to a prison
1701 — PENDLE any projection from a building → US
1705 — LARACH the site of a building or habitation → Sc.
1705 — SHELL the skeleton or carcass of a building or a ship
1727 — BASILIC a large oblong building or hall, with double colonnades and a semicircular apse at the end, used for a court of justice and place of public assembly → arch.
..19C — COB-CASTLE a flimsy building; a child’s toy house; a thing easily pushed over → Eng. dial.
1811 — BIGGIN a building, a house, a cottage; a hut covered with mud or turf → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1816 — BIGGING the act of building → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1822 — BACKSIDE the back premises of a building or house, including the garden or fields adjoining → Sc.
1827 — BIKE a building, a habitation → Sc.
1839 — CABOOSE any small cramped building or place within a building → Amer. dial.
1848 — CRYSTAL PALACE a large building constructed with a high proportion of glass
1862 — SHEBANG any building or establishment → Amer. dial.
1866 — RABBLE a carelessly erected building, wall, etc; a confused or ruinous mass; anything ruinous or dilapidated; any kind of building falling into decay → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1879 — SKY-BLOTCH the dark outline of a building against the evening sky
1886 — CASTLE a large building
1887 — BACKAGE the back part of a building or row of buildings; the line or outlook of buildings or plots of land on the rear side
1889 — BUZZARD ROOST — BUZZARD’S ROOST a dilapidated building; a ramshackle building → Amer. sl.
1898 — BIGD a building, a house → Sc. (Bk.)
1899 — DUMP a building, place, house, etc.; usually as a pejorative or contemptuous term → colloq.
..20C — MONKEY-CAGE the steel structure of a modern building → sl., chiefly Cockneys’ usage
1900 — PREMS premises, buildings → sl.
1904 — TIMPERON any timber or wooden building → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 — RAMBLE a rambling building full of strange passages and stairs → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1910 — GAZEBO a tall building; any tall object → Ireland (Bk.)
1930 — KIP a building, any form of place → sl.
1930 — MIGHTY DOME the US Congress building, or any similar large, institutional edifice → African-American sl.
1932 — GAFF any sort of building; a place of residence; a shop or other place of business → UK sl.
1934 — HALE a building, esp. a house → Hawaii
1939 — HALLWAY a space between two buildings → Amer. dial.
1939 — STRING SLUM a row of unsightly buildings along the side of a road → US
1940 — ROCKPILE any tall building → African-American sl.
1968 — DERRY a derelict building → sl.
1970 — CIGAR BOX a cheaply constructed building → Amer. dial.
1991 — BATOPHOBIA an abnormal fear of passing high buildings (Bk.)
NOUNS – PERSON
1265 — GINOUR a builder; a stonemason; → obs.
1307 — BIGGAR — BIGGARE — BIGGER a builder → later chiefly Sc.
1350 — BIGGAND a builder → obs.
1400 — HOUSER a person who builds a house; a builder
1460 — EDIFIER a builder
1544 — MORTAR-MAN a builder; a person who makes or uses mortar → obs.
1549 — HOUSEWRIGHT a builder of houses, especially of timber
1607 — RAISER a builder
1634 — STRUCTOR a builder
1755 — STRUCTURER an architect, a builder → obs.
1795 — BILDER — BILDIR a builder → obs. (Bk.)
1824 — RICKLER a bad builder or architect → Sc.
1835 — CAD a builder’s assistant; an assistant or confederate of a lower grade
1856 — PADDY a builder’s labourer; a bricklayer’s labourer who brings him stones or bricks and mortar
1873 — BEILDER a builder → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1880 — UP-PUTTER a builder; an erector → Sc.
1883 — JERRY-BUILDER a rascally speculating builder → sl.
VERBS
..750 — TIMBER to build, construct, or make, as a house, ship, etc.; later, to build or construct of wood → obs.
1000 — BETIMBER to build → obs.
1340 — EDIFY to build; to construct (a dwelling, edifice) of the usual building materials
1607 — UNBUILD to destroy or demolish a building or structure
1623 — EDIFICATE to build → obs.
1623 — PERFABRICATE to build completely → obs.
1737 — BIG — BIGG to build; to build a nest → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1860 — BIGGER to build → Eng. dial.
1902 — LATHE to build → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1950 — WHOMP UP to make; to devise; to build → sl.