Definitions for: Scaffold

[n] a temporary arrangement erected around a building for convenience of workers
[n] a platform from which criminals are executed (hanged or beheaded)
[v] provide with a scaffold for support; "scaffold the building before painting it"

Webster (1913) Definition: 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.

Scaf"fold, v. t.
To furnish or uphold with a scaffold.

See Also: arrangement, hold, hold up, instrument of execution, platform, scaffolding, staging, support, sustain

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