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landscraper en · NOUN · etymology 1

Etymology

From land + -scraper.

Meanings

1. A building with a very large horizontal footprint; a horizontal megastructure.
   • But the super structure already has been panned by local author and architectural critic James Howard Kunstler, who has called the building a "landscraper" the size of an aircraft carrier, and compared it unfavorably to a "gigantic brick Yule log" and Darth Vader's mask. 2009 December 28, Dennis Yusko, “Skidmore's sounds of music”, in The Times-Union:

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groundscraper · earthscraper

landscraper en · NOUN · etymology 2

Etymology

Compound of land + scraper.

Meanings

1. A piece of heavy equipment used to move earth.
   • "We caught them using a lot of heavy equipment — big landscrapers were moving out tons of dirt," said Marlene Stephens, of Don't Waste Arizona, a coalition of Arizona environmental groups fighting the toxic waste complex. 1990 July 22, “Activists protest earth-moving at waste facility site”, in Mohave Daily MIner:
2. (nonstandard) A gardener or gardener.
   • "I loved flowers, too, and grew up in a garden, but it didn't make me single-minded or a landscraper. . . ." 1926, Olive Dean Hormel, Co-Ed, Charles Scriber's Sons, published 1926, page 184:

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