scaffold

[ skaf-uhld, -ohld ]

/ ˈskæf əld, -oʊld /

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noun

a temporary structure for holding workers and materials during the erection, repair, or decoration of a building.

an elevated platform on which a criminal is executed, usually by hanging.

a raised platform or stage for exhibiting spectacles, seating spectators, etc.

any raised framework.

a suspended platform that is used by painters, window washers, and others for working on a tall structure, as a skyscraper.

Metallurgy. any piling or fusion of materials in a blast furnace, obstructing the flow of gases and preventing the uniform descent of the charge.

a system of raised frameworks; scaffolding.

verb (used with object)

to furnish with a scaffold or scaffolding.

to support by or place on a scaffold.

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Origin of scaffold

1300–50; Middle English scaffot, skaffaut, scaffalde<Old French escadafaut; akin to catafalque

OTHER WORDS FROM scaffold

un·scaf·fold·ed, adjective

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Example sentences from the Web for scaffold

These bears and other beasts are there baited in plots of ground, scaffolded about for the beholders to stand safe.
The Survey of London|John Stow
Then the car halted on the edge of the building-pit and they blinked down and up at the scaffolded monster.
Martyr|Alan Edward Nourse
When we came to the forks, we found that the skins we had scaffolded were all safe.
Captives Among the Indians|James Smith
Weather-beaten wooden buildings there are, scaffolded structures, shaken by the vibration of coal-crushing machinery within.
The Immigrant Tide, Its Ebb and Flow|Edward A. Steiner

A few hours later I tore myself away and returned to the hangar, where the Pioneer now reposed in a scaffolded cradle.
Astounding Stories of Super-Science July 1930|Various

British Dictionary definitions for scaffold

scaffold

/ (ˈskæfəld, -fəʊld) /

noun

a temporary metal or wooden framework that is used to support workmen and materials during the erection, repair, etc, of a building or other construction

a raised wooden platform on which plays are performed, tobacco, etc, is dried, or (esp formerly) criminals are executed

verb (tr)

to provide with a scaffold

to support by means of a scaffold

Derived forms of scaffold

scaffolder, noun

Word Origin for scaffold

C14: from Old French eschaffaut, from Vulgar Latin catafalicum (unattested); see catafalque

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