scaffolds
noun
- 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
An accumulation of adherent, partly fused material forming a shelf or dome-shaped obstruction above the tuyeres in a blast furnace.
- 5
A structure that provides support for some other material.
verb
- 1
To set up a scaffolding; to surround a building with scaffolding.
- 2
To sustain; to provide support for.
- 3
To dispose of the bodies of the dead on a scaffold or raised platform, as by some Native American tribes.
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