scaffold
Other forms: scaffolding; scaffolds; scaffolded
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 scaffold is also the platform on which criminals used to be executed publicly by hanging or beheading. If you watch a lot of swashbuckler movies, you'll have seen depictions of a helpless person being threatened with beheading by a villain on a scaffold in a crowded square. Suddenly, out of the crowd a hero appears and saves the day, after which they ride off into the sunset.
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a temporary arrangement erected around a building for convenience of workerstype of:arrangementan orderly grouping (of things or persons) considered as a unit; the result of arranging
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a platform from which criminals are executed (hanged or beheaded)type of:platforma raised horizontal surface
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provide with a scaffold for support
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Learn these words derived from the Greek root kata-, which has a range of meanings including "down," "through," "against" "across," "along with," and "wrongly."
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