landscraper

English

Etymology 1

From land +‎ -scraper.

Noun

landscraper (plural landscrapers)

1. A building with a very large horizontal footprint; a horizontal megastructure.
   • 2009 December 28, Dennis Yusko, “Skidmore's sounds of music”, in The Times-Union‎^[1]:

     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.

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See also

• earthscraper
• groundscraper

 

Etymology 2

Compound of land +‎ scraper.

Noun

landscraper (plural landscrapers)

1. A piece of heavy equipment used to move earth.
   • 1990 July 22, “Activists protest earth-moving at waste facility site”, in Mohave Daily MIner‎^[2]:

     "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.

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2. (nonstandard) A gardener or gardener.
   • 1926, Olive Dean Hormel, Co-Ed, Charles Scriber's Sons, published 1926, page 184:

     "I loved flowers, too, and grew up in a garden, but it didn't make me single-minded or a landscraper. . . ."

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