Uk English Meaning of scaffold

scaffold

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Definitions and Meaning of scaffold in English

Wordnet

scaffold (n)

a platform from which criminals are executed (hanged or beheaded)

a temporary arrangement erected around a building for convenience of workers

Wordnet

scaffold (v)

provide with a scaffold for support

Webster

scaffold (n.)

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.

Specifically, a stage or elevated platform for the execution of a criminal; as, to die on the scaffold.

An accumulation of adherent, partly fused material forming a shelf, or dome-shaped obstruction, above the tuyeres in a blast furnace.

Webster

scaffold (v. t.)

To furnish or uphold with a scaffold.

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scaffold

a platform from which criminals are executed (hanged or beheaded), a temporary arrangement erected around a building for convenience of workers, provide with a

platform,podium,balcony,dais,Pulpit,riser,rostrum,stage,stand,podium

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scads => heaps, scad => Mackerel, scabwort => Scabwort, scabrousness => roughness, scabrous =>    scabby,