scaffolds

noun

  1. 1

    A structure made of scaffolding for workers to stand on while working on a building.

  2. 2

    An elevated platform on which a criminal is executed.

  3. 3

    An elevated platform on which dead bodies are ritually disposed of, as by some Native American tribes.

  4. 4

    An accumulation of adherent, partly fused material forming a shelf or dome-shaped obstruction above the tuyeres in a blast furnace.

  5. 5

    A structure that provides support for some other material.

verb

  1. 1

    To set up a scaffolding; to surround a building with scaffolding.

  2. 2

    To sustain; to provide support for.

  3. 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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