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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Scaffold \Scaf"fold\, verb (used with an object) To furnish or uphold with a scaffold.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Scaffold \Scaf"fold\, noun [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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
scaffold
noun
1: a platform from which criminals are executed (hanged or beheaded)
2: a temporary arrangement erected around a building for convenience of workers
verb: provide with a scaffold for support; "scaffold the building before painting it"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
27 Moby Thesaurus words for "scaffold": ax, block, cross, death chair, death chamber, drop, echafaudage, electric chair, gallows, gallows-tree, gas chamber, gibbet, guillotine, halter, hemp, hempen collar, hot seat, lethal chamber, maiden, noose, rope, scaffolding, stage, staging, stake, the chair, tree
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