About The Word Scaffold
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Scaffold
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What's The Definition Of Scaffold?
[n] a temporary arrangement erected around a building for convenience of workers
[n] a platform from which criminals are executed (hanged or beheaded) [v] provide with a scaffold for support; "scaffold the building before painting it" Synonyms | Synonyms for Scaffold: Related Terms | Find terms related to Scaffold: See Also | arrangement | hold | hold up | instrument of execution | platform | scaffolding | staging | support | sustain Scaffold In Webster's Dictionary \Scaf"fold\, n. [OF. eschafault, eschafaut, escafaut,
escadafaut, F. ['e]chafaud; probably originally the same word
as E. & F. catafalque, It. catafalco. See {Catafalque}.]
1. A temporary structure of timber, boards, etc., for various
purposes, as for supporting workmen and materials in
building, for exhibiting a spectacle upon, for holding the
spectators at a show, etc.
Pardon, gentles all, The flat, unraised spirits that
have dared On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth
So great an object. --Shak.
2. Specifically, a stage or elevated platform for the
execution of a criminal; as, to die on the scaffold.
That a scaffold of execution should grow a scaffold
of coronation. --Sir P.
Sidney.
3. (Metal.) An accumulation of adherent, partly fused
material forming a shelf, or dome-shaped obstruction,
above the tuy[`e]res in a blast furnace.
\Scaf"fold\, v. t. To furnish or uphold with a scaffold. |
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