- Framework for hanging lad. Scoff in confusion - Raised platform - Temporary framework erected around a building - 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. - Specifically, a stage or elevated platform for the
execution of a criminal; as, to die on the scaffold. - An accumulation of adherent, partly fused material
forming a shelf, or dome-shaped obstruction, above the tuyeres in a
blast furnace. - To furnish or uphold with a scaffold.