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Definition scaffold

Etymology

From Middle English scaffold, scaffalde, from Anglo-Norman schaffaut, eschaffaut, eschafal, eschaiphal, escadafaut (“platform to see a tournament”) (Modern French échafaud), from Old French es- (“indicating movement away or separation”) (from Latin ex- (“out, away”)) + chafaud, chafaut, chafault, caafau, caafaus, cadefaut (“scaffold for executing a criminal”), from Vulgar Latin *catafalcum (“viewing stage”), possibly from Ancient Greek ????- (kata-, “back; against”) + Latin -falicum (from fala, phala (“wooden gallery or tower; siege tower”)).

Noun

scaffold (plural scaffolds)

1. A structure made of scaffolding for workers to stand on while working on a building.
2. An elevated platform on which a criminal is executed.
3. An elevated platform on which dead bodies are ritually disposed of, as by some Native American tribes.
4. (metalworking) An accumulation of adherent, partly fused material forming a shelf or dome-shaped obstruction above the tuyeres in a blast furnace.
5. (sciences) A structure that provides support for some other material.

Verb

scaffold (third-person singular simple present scaffolds, present participle scaffolding, simple past and past participle scaffolded)

1. (transitive) To set up a scaffolding; to surround a building with scaffolding.
2. (transitive) To sustain; to provide support for.
3. (transitive) To dispose of the bodies of the dead on a scaffold or raised platform, as by some Native American tribes.

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