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The word "skyscraper" referred to 7 other things before it was used on buildings.

You can look it up — I used the OED — so try to guess, but I'll reveal the answer after the jump.

1. A sail on a ship.

2. A hat. ("The trumpets call me to swagger in a cockd skyscraper & sword.")

3. A horse. ("The huntsmen..were all abroad.., trotting..down the road, on great nine-hand skyscrapers, nimble daisy-cutting nags.., and ponies no bigger than the learned one at Astley's.")

4. A person. ("I say, old sky-scraper, is it cold up there?")

5. A bicycle rider (on one of those old "penny farthing" bikes).

6. A tall tale. ("My yarn won't come so well after your sky-scrapers of love.")

7. A fly ball.

All those applications of the term are obsolete or rare. The overwhelmingly dominant meaning of "skyscraper" to refer to the buildings first appears in print in 1883.

I got interested in this subject after someone on Facebook complained about the look of the "pencil towers" in New York City. I didn't know the term "pencil towers," and I found this article in The Guardian (from last February): "Super-tall, super-skinny, super-expensive: the 'pencil towers' of New York's super-rich/The proposed 2022 skyline overlooking Central Park/An extreme concentration of wealth in a city where even the air is for sale has produced a new breed of needle-like tower." Needle-like. I wondered it "skyscraper" originally carried the meaning that the buildings were wounding the sky.

Poking up above the Manhattan skyline like etiolated beanpoles, they seem to defy the laws of both gravity and commercial sense. They stand like naked elevator shafts awaiting their floors, raw extrusions of capital piled up until it hits the clouds.

I detect phallophobia.  Damn those sky-scrapers of love!

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