earthscraper

noun
/ˈɝθˌskɹeɪp.ɚ/US/ɜːθˈskɹeɪp.ə(ɹ)/UK

Etymology

Compound of earth + scraper.

  1. inherited from *h₁er-
  2. inherited from *erþō
  3. inherited from *erþu
  4. inherited from eorþe
  5. inherited from erthe
  6. suffixed as earthscraper — “earth + -scraper

Definitions

  1. A building that is built underground

    A building that is built underground; a subterranean skyscraper.

    • By Vox! We went down all right. Spacious rooms were here piled one upon another connected by wide staircases. This subterranean temple was rather like an inverted skyscraper, an earthscraper, perhaps.
    • So then I dreamed up a subterranean skyscraper (or,if you will, an earthscraper) with various floors, each of them constituting a different infernal abode;
    • The earthscraper burst from the tunnel into daylight, sparks trailing. Elara turned hard against the wheel, corrected itstrajectory and spun one hundred and eighty degrees into a brigade of sentinels their weapons drawn.
  2. Synonym of bellyscraper (“a piece of heavy equipment”).

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for earthscraper. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA