Scaffold
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English
Noun
Scaffold (plural Scaffolds)- A structure made of scaffolding, for workers to stand on while working on a building.
- An elevated platform on which a criminal is executed.
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Verb
Scaffold (third-person singular simple present Scaffolds, present participle Scaffolding, simple past and past participle Scaffolded)
- (transitive) To set up a scaffolding; to surround a building with scaffolding.
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Thesaurus
ax, block, cross, death chair, death chamber, drop, echafaudage, electric chair, gallows, gallows-tree, gas chamber, gibbet, guillotine, halter, hemp, hempen collar, hot seat, lethal chamber, maiden, noose, rope, scaffolding, stage, staging, stake, the chair, tree
Etymology
Middle English scaffold, scaffalde from Medieval Latin scaffaldus from Old French eschaffaut, escadafaut (“platform to see a tournament”) from Late Latin scadafaltum from ex- + *cadafaltum, catafalcum (“view-stage”) from Old Italian *catare (“to view, see”) + falco (“a stage”), a variant of balco (“stage, beam, balk”), of Germanic origin, from Lombardic palko, palcho (“scaffold, balk, beam”) from Proto-Germanic *balkô (“beam, rafter”) from Proto-Indo-European *bhelg- (“beam, plank”). Akin to Old High German balco, balcho (“scaffold, balk, beam”). More at catafalque, balcony, balk.
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External links
- Scaffold in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- Scaffold in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- Scaffold at OneLook Dictionary Search
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- English terms derived from Medieval Latin
- English terms derived from Old French
- English terms derived from Late Latin
- English terms derived from Old Italian
- English terms derived from Germanic languages
- English terms derived from Lombardic
- English terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
