scaffold

Temporary platform used to elevate and support workers and materials during work on a structure or machine. It consists of one or more wooden planks and is supported by either a timber or a tubular steel or aluminum frame; bamboo is used in parts of Asia. Scaffolding may be raised and lowered by means of cables controlled by a ratchet or electric motor.

scaffold [′ska‚fōld]

(civil engineering)

A temporary or movable platform supported on the ground or suspended; used for working at considerable heights above the ground.

scaffold

1. A temporary platform to support workers and materials on the face of a structure and to provide access to work areas above the ground.

2. Any elevated platform.

Scaffold

an auxiliary structure in the form of a wooden deck placed on supports; it provides a platform from which workmen can peform certain types of construction work, such as putting up walls or finishing room interiors. Scaffolds are usually set up on floors. Modular scaffolds are widely used in modern construction work; they are made of steel and lightweight alloys and are equipped with mechanical and hydraulic jacks for height adjustments.

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The age had not so much refinement, that any sense of impropriety restrained the wearers of petticoat and farthingale from stepping forth into the public ways, and wedging their not unsubstantial persons, if occasion were, into the throng nearest to the scaffold at an execution.

The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context

The scaffold will be ready by to-morrow, but the headsman will be wanting and they will put it off till the day after to-morrow.

Twenty Years After by Dumas, Alexandre View in context

It was terrible to see--if any one in that distraction of excitement could have seen--the world of eager eyes, all strained upon the scaffold and the beam.

Barnaby Rudge - A Tale Of The Riots Of 'Eighty by Dickens, Charles View in context

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