Definition of scaffold

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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..

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Scaffoldage :: Scaffoldage (n.) A scaffold.
Imp-pole :: Imp-pole (n.) A pole for supporting a scaffold.
Trestle :: Trestle (n.) A movable frame or support for anything, as scaffolding, consisting of three or four legs secured to a top piece, and forming a sort of stool or horse, used by carpenters, masons, and other workmen; also, a kind of framework of strong posts or piles, and crossbeams, for supporting a bridge, the track of a railway, or the like..
Stage :: Stage (n.) A floor elevated for the convenience of mechanical work, or the like; a scaffold; a staging..
Hayloft :: Hayloft (n.) A loft or scaffold for hay.
Scaffold :: Scaffold (v. t.) To furnish or uphold with a scaffold.
Cradle :: Cradle (n.) A suspended scaffold used in shafts.
Mount :: Mount (n.) To get up on anything, as a platform or scaffold; especially, to seat one's self on a horse for riding..
Gauntry :: Gauntry (n.) A scaffolding or frame carrying a crane or other structure.
Upher :: Upher (n.) A fir pole of from four to seven inches diameter, and twenty to forty feet long, sometimes roughly hewn, used for scaffoldings, and sometimes for slight and common roofs, for which use it is split..
Ledger :: Ledger (n.) A horizontal piece of timber secured to the uprights and supporting floor timbers, a staircase, scaffolding, or the like. It differs from an intertie in being intended to carry weight..
Standard :: Standard (n.) An upright support, as one of the poles of a scaffold; any upright in framing..
Scaffolding :: Scaffolding (n.) Materials for building scaffolds.
Scaffold :: 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..
Scaffold :: Scaffold (n.) Specifically, a stage or elevated platform for the execution of a criminal; as, to die on the scaffold..
Tumble :: Tumble (v. i.) To roll down; to fall suddenly and violently; to be precipitated; as, to tumble from a scaffold..
Trestlework :: Trestlework (n.) A viaduct, pier, scaffold, or the like, resting on trestles connected together..
Putlog :: Putlog (n.) One of the short pieces of timber on which the planks forming the floor of a scaffold are laid, -- one end resting on the ledger of the scaffold, and the other in a hole left in the wall temporarily for the purpose..
Scaffolding :: Scaffolding (n.) A scaffold; a supporting framework; as, the scaffolding of the body..
Scaffold :: Scaffold (n.) An accumulation of adherent, partly fused material forming a shelf, or dome-shaped obstruction, above the tuyeres in a blast furnace..
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