An elevated temporary platform is called a scaffold. The scaffold is used because it is much safer and efficient to have workers and their materials on a platform than scrambling up and down ladders all day.
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.
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"
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.
Scaffold
Pardon, gentles all, The flat, unraised spirits that have dared On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object.2.
That a scaffold of execution should grow a scaffold of coronation.3.
Scaffold
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.
To furnish or uphold with a scaffold.
Usage Examples
If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!
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