terrace
noun
a raised level with a vertical or sloping front or sides faced with masonry, turf, or the like, especially one of a series of levels rising one above another.
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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Get the men who are terracing the lodge.
From A Young Man in a Hurry and Other Short Stories by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers