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scaffold |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Scaffold \Scaf"fold\, v. t. To furnish or uphold with a scaffold. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Scaffold \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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: scaffold n 1: a platform from which criminals are executed (hanged or beheaded) 2: a temporary arrangement erected around a building for convenience of workers
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