A fairly old and widely-used word, it refers to a community social gathering at which friends and neighbors join together in a single activity (sewing, quilting, barn raising, etc.), usually to help one person or family. The earliest known example in print is a spinning X, in 1769. Other early occurrences are husking X(1816), apple X (1827), and logging X (1836).
Today the most well known usage is associated with an annual competitive activity taken up by US teenagers.
So what be X?
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Bee?
--Sica
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