Scaffold

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
    v 1: provide with a scaffold for support; "scaffold the building
         before painting it"
    

Scaffold \Scaf"fold\, v. t.
   To furnish or uphold with a scaffold.
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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.
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            Pardon, gentles all,
            The flat, unraised spirits that have dared
            On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth
            So great an object.                   --Shak.
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   2. Specifically, a stage or elevated platform for the
      execution of a criminal; as, to die on the scaffold.
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            That a scaffold of execution should grow a scaffold
            of coronation.                        --Sir P.
                                                  Sidney.
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   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.
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27 Moby Thesaurus words for "scaffold":
      ax, block, cross, death chair, death chamber, drop, echafaudage,
      electric chair, gallows, gallows-tree, gas chamber, gibbet,
      guillotine, halter, hemp, hempen collar, hot seat, lethal chamber,
      maiden, noose, rope, scaffolding, stage, staging, stake, the chair,
      tree