Scaffold
['skæfəʊld;-f(ə)ld] or ['skæfold]
Definition
(noun.) a temporary arrangement erected around a building for convenience of workers.
(noun.) a platform from which criminals are executed (hanged or beheaded).
(verb.) provide with a scaffold for support; 'scaffold the building before painting it'.
Inputed by Bennett--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
(n.) Specifically, a stage or elevated platform for the execution of a criminal; as, to die on the scaffold.
(n.) An accumulation of adherent, partly fused material forming a shelf, or dome-shaped obstruction, above the tuyeres in a blast furnace.
(v. t.) To furnish or uphold with a scaffold.
Edited by Lester
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Stage, frame, scaffolding, STAGING.
Edited by Bridget
Definition
n. a temporary platform for exhibiting or for supporting something and esp. for the execution of a criminal: a framework.—v.t. to furnish with a scaffold: to sustain.—ns. Scaff′oldage (Shak.) a scaffold a stage the gallery of a theatre; Scaff′older a spectator in the gallery: one of the 'gods;' Scaff′olding a scaffold of wood for supporting workmen while building: materials for scaffolds: (fig.) a frame framework: disposing of the bodies of the dead on a scaffold or raised platform as by the Sioux Indians &c.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a scaffold, denotes that you will undergo keen disappointment in failing to secure the object of your affection. To ascend one, you will be misunderstood and censured by your friends for some action, which you never committed. To decend one, you will be guilty of wrong doing, and you will suffer the penalty. To fall from one, you will be unexpectedly surprised while engaged in deceiving and working injury to others.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
A work of art that rarely fails to get a hanging.
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Examples
- I longed to leave them as the criminal on the scaffold longs for the axe to descend: that is, I wished the pang over. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Of how he came to follow Charles I to the scaffold we shall tell in a later section. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Every one of those had perished in the massacre; every human creature he had since cared for and parted with, had died on the scaffold. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- As it came on very dark, he began to think of all the men he had known who had died upon the scaffold; some of them through his means. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- He was taken one January morning in 1649 to a scaffold erected outside the windows of his own banqueting-room at Whitehall. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Cromwell had these qualities and mounted a throne, Rienzi had them and died on the scaffold—all through circumstances. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The malefactor was fixed in a chair upon a scaffold erected for that purpose, and his head cut off at one blow, with a sword of about forty feet long. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Let's get the scaffolding up, then, for a pair of whiskers. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- At his initiation he went beneath a scaffolding on which the bull was killed, and the blood ran down on him. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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