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scaf⋅fold

  [skaf-uhld, -ohld]
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–noun
1. a temporary structure for holding workers and materials during the erection, repair, or decoration of a building.
2. an elevated platform on which a criminal is executed, usually by hanging.
3. a raised platform or stage for exhibiting spectacles, seating spectators, etc.
4. any raised framework.
5. a suspended platform that is used by painters, window washers, and others for working on a tall structure, as a skyscraper.
6. Metallurgy. any piling or fusion of materials in a blast furnace, obstructing the flow of gases and preventing the uniform descent of the charge.
7. a system of raised frameworks; scaffolding.
–verb (used with object)
8. to furnish with a scaffold or scaffolding.
9. to support by or place on a scaffold.
Origin:
1300–50; ME scaffot, skaffaut, scaffalde < OF escadafaut; akin to catafalque
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scaf·fold   (skāf'əld, -ōld')   
n.  
  1. A temporary platform, either supported from below or suspended from above, on which workers sit or stand when performing tasks at heights above the ground.
  2. A raised wooden framework or platform.
  3. A platform used in the execution of condemned prisoners, as by hanging or beheading.
tr.v.   scaf·fold·ed, scaf·fold·ing, scaf·folds
  1. To provide or support with a raised framework or platform.
  2. To place on a raised framework or platform.

[Middle English, from Medieval Latin scaffaldus, of Old French origin.]
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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.

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.

Scaffold

Scaf"fold\, v. t. To furnish or uphold with a scaffold.
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Language Translation for : Scaffold
Spanish: cadalso, patíbulo,
German: das Schafott,
Japanese: 死刑台
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scaffold 
c.1347 (implied in scaffolding), aphetic of an O.N.Fr. variant of O.Fr. eschafaut "scaffold," probably altered (by influence of eschace "a prop, support") from chaffaut, from V.L. *catafalicum (see catafalque).
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