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scaffoldn.

Brit. /ˈskafəʊld/, /ˈskaf(ə)ld/, U.S. /ˈskæfəld/, /ˈskæˌfoʊld/
Forms:

α. Middle English scaffot, Middle English skaffaut, Middle English 1500s (1800s dialect) -at.

β. Middle English scaffalde, Middle English skaf(f)ald, Middle English scaffhold, Middle English skafold, Middle English–1500s scaffolde, Middle English–1500s scafold(e, Middle English–1600s skaffold, 1500s scaffald, 1500s -ould, 1500s skefold, 1500s schapfold, Middle English– scaffold.

γ. Middle English schafhold, Middle English chaff-, Middle English schaffold, Middle English shaffolde.

δ. 1500s skaffell, 1500s -oll.

Illustration of Forms.

α. 1349 [see sense 1a]. 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xvii. 343 Scaffatis [1489 Adv. scaffaldis], ledderis, and coueryngis.c1600 Diurnal of Remarkable Occurrents (1833) 68 Vpoun twa skaffattis.1869 J. C. Atkinson Peacock's Gloss. Dial. Hundred of Lonsdale Skaffat, corr. of scaffold.

β. 1355 [see sense 1a]. 1435 Contract Fotheringhay Church (1841) 28 Ladderis, Tymbre, Scaffolds, Gynnes.c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 442/1 Scafold, stage, fala.c1450 Cov. Myst. (Shaks. Soc.) 298 Here Pylat syttyth in his skaffald.1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1903) II. v. viii. 176 To be rehersit on scaffaldis for admiratioun and delite.1536 Kyngston in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. II. 63 The preparacion of skefolds.1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Si/2 A Scaffould, theatrum, scena.a1630 F. Moryson in Shakespeare's Europe (1903) iv. i. 303 Mounting vpon stalls, or litle skaffolds.

γ. 1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur x. xliv. 484 They were set vpon schafholdes to gyue the Iugement of these two Knyghtes.1514 Accts. St. John's Hosp., Canterbury (Canterbury Cathedral Archives: CCA-U13/4) Payd for x naylls for þe chaffoldes.a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (ed. 2) (1744) IX. 134 Apon Schaffoldis yn the midle of the market place.

δ. 1581 Sc. Acts Jas. VI (1814) III. 197/1 Wpoun the skaffell the tyme of his executioun.

Etymology: < Norman French forms corresponding to Central Old French schaffaut, eschaffaut, eschafal, eschaiphal, earlier escadafaut = Provençal escadafalc , formed with prefix es- ( < Latin ex- out) on the Common Romanic word represented by Old French chafau(l)t (modern French chafaud ), earlier caafau-s , cadefaut , Provençal cadafalc , Old Catalan cadafal , Spanish †cadafalso , now cadahalso , cadalso , Portuguese cadafalso , Italian catafalco (whence French catafalque catafalque n.) < popular Latin *catafalcum , of uncertain formation: according to some scholars, < Greek prefix κατα- (see under catafalque n.) + -falicum, < fala, phala wooden tower or gallery. For other related forms see catafalque n., and compare medieval Latin scadafale (12th cent.), scadafaltum (13th cent.), scafaldus , scalfaudus , etc. (15th cent.). The Romanic word has been adopted by continental Germanic languages: (Middle) Dutch schavot , German schavot(t , Danish skafot . With the δ-forms in English compare scaffoldage n.
Signification.
1.
a. A temporary platform usually supported on poles or (sometimes) trestles, but occasionally suspended, and designed to hold the workmen and materials employed in the erection, repairing, or decoration of a building. Also plural, but now usually singular, an assemblage of such platforms with their supporting poles, = scaffolding n.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > equipment > ladder > scaffolding > [noun]
scaffolding1347
scaffold1349
stagec1440
cather1568
stance1811
the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [noun] > subordinate agency > subordinate or supporting parts or means
scaffold1349
infrastructure1927
plural.
1349 Accts. Exchequer King's Remembrancer (P.R.O.: E101/462/16) lf. 7 In .xxvj. peciis maeremii emptis pro scaffotes ad idem opus.
1646 W. Jenkyn Reformation's Remora 30 The building's set up, let the scaffolds be pulld down.
1696 R. Bentley Of Revel. & Messias 32 They must needs be..abolished, like scaffolds that are removed when the buildings are finished.
1737 A. Pope Epist. of Horace i. i. 146 Away, away! take all your scaffolds down, For Snug's the word: My dear! we'll live in Town.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iii. 351 The crowds of workmen, the scaffolds and the masses of hewn stone [etc.].
singular.1355 in J. T. Fowler Memorials Church SS. Peter & Wilfrid, Ripon (1888) III. 94 In mercede Laur. Wrigth sublevante le skaffald in choro.1360–1 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 385 Cum cratis factis pro skafald.1442 Eton Coll. Acc. in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) I. 387 v. dosyn of hyrdelez for skafold.1691 A. Gavin Frauds Romish Monks 182 These Monks, out of Curiosity, whilst the Work-men were gone to get their Dinner, did climb up the Scaffold..to view their Work.1720 D. Defoe Mem. Cavalier 103 Bricklayers raise a low Scaffold to build a Brick Wall.1836 J. Murray Hand-bk. for Travellers on Continent 149/2 He was suspended by a scaffold, lying on his back, his eyes protected by a pair of glasses from the falling dust.1841 Penny Cycl. XX. 497/2 As the building rises, the scaffold is strengthened by diagonal poles, the lower ends of which rest upon the ground, and which are tied to the vertical pieces wherever they intersect them.1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iii. 423 Every bricklayer who falls from a scaffold.figurative.1642 J. Denham Sophy iv. 35 These outward beauties are but the props and scaffolds On which we built our love.1701 J. Swift Disc. Contests Nobles & Commons iii. 35 He [sc. Sylla] abolished the Office of Tribune, as being only a Scaffold to Tyranny, whereof he had no further use.1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature (1834) II. 408 Figure, parable, hypothesis..serve as scaffolds in raising the building of righteousness in opinion and conduct.1889 G. M. Hopkins Poems (1967) 107 But man—we, scaffold of score brittle bones.
b. A painter's easel. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > equipment for painting or drawing > [noun] > easel
scaffold1601
easel1634
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxxv. x. 535 Zeuxis..brought upon the scaffold a table, wherein were clustres of grapes so lively painted, that the very birds of the aire flew flocking thither.
1638 F. Junius Painting of Ancients 197 An old woman kept a large boord, alreadie fitted upon the Asse or scaffold, to have something drawne upon it.
c. Mining. (See quots.)
ΚΠ
1860 Eng. & Foreign Mining Gloss. (new ed.) (Derbyshire Terms) 43 Scaffold, in a mine, a platform made, where some miners work above the heads of others.
1860 Eng. & Foreign Mining Gloss. (new ed.) (S. Staffs. Terms) 78 Scaffold, planking elevated by stays and ladders, in order to allow the miner to ascend and disengage the coal in the upper part of the seam.
1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Scaffold, in mining, the platform at the top of a winning.
2. A military engine for assailing a wall. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > engine of war > [noun] > scaling-ladder or scaffold
scaffoldc1400
scaling ladderc1400
scale1412
scaling1582
scalado1600
scalade1632
c1400 Rom. Rose 4176 They [ne] dredde noon assaut Of ginne, gunne, nor skaffaut.
1481 W. Caxton tr. Siege & Conqueste Jerusalem (1893) xxix. 63 They toke poles and made scaffholdes..whiche they sette to the walles.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xvii. 600 Syndry scaffatis [1489 Adv. scaffaldis] thai maid vith-all That war weill hyar than the wall.
?1520 A. Barclay tr. Sallust Cron. Warre agaynst Iugurth xliv. f. 62 Afterwarde he commaunded scaffoldes to be made about the walles.
3. A raised platform, seat, or stand, used for the purpose of exhibiting persons or actions to the public view, making proclamations, or the like.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > high position > [noun] > quality of being raised or elevated > raised level surface or platform
plancher1295
staging1323
cagea1400
scaffoldc1405
mounture?a1425
halpace1507
wharf1533
platform1557
plat1559
foot pace1571
theatre1587
scenec1612
estrade1696
suggestum1705
tribune1763
scaffolding1787
estrado1838
dais1861
deck1872
society > communication > manifestation > showing to the sight > exposure to public view > [noun] > place for > platform
scaffoldc1405
theatre1587
scaffolding1787
c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 1675 An heraud on a Scaffold made an .oo.
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. cxxxiiiv The Kynge..causyd an hyghe Scafolde to be made..where moch people beynge assemblyd he shewyd vnto them a longe processe of his wrongefull enprysonement.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. ccclxix. 606 The yonge kynge was..in a chayre lypt up on high,..and all ye yong newe knyghtes on lower scaffoldes at his fete.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Esdras ix. 42 Eszdras the prest & reder of ye lawe stode vp vpon a scaffolde of wodd.
1590 R. Greene Mourning Garment 20 Rosamond set vpon a scaffolde, to take viewe of all.
1611 Bible (King James) 2 Chron. vi. 13 Solomon had made a brasen scaffold..and had set it in the midst of the Court, and vpon it hee stood. View more context for this quotation
1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 146 A scaffold, like those belonging to Queristers, in some of our Cathedrall Churches.
1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 54 At the other end of the Hall..there is a little Scaffold, on which are several Dervishes, that play on Flutes and Drums.
4. spec. A platform or stage on which theatrical performance or exhibition takes place; esp. in early use, a temporary stage on which a mystery play was performed. Obsolete exc. Historical.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > stage > [noun]
scaffoldc1405
stage1551
theatre1589
board1768
greenage1836
greengage1931
main stage1950
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > stage > [noun] > movable or temporary
scaffoldc1405
pageant1450
pegma1604
pageant car1803
street theatre1882
c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Miller's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 198 Som tyme..He pleyeth Herodes vp on a Scaffold hye.
1507 in E. K. Chambers Mediæval Stage (1903) II. 392 [A] schapfold [and] pagentts [are mentioned in churchwardens' accounts for a play].
1519–20 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 304 Paid for a quarter for the skaffold ouer þe porch ayenst palme~sonday.
1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus at Scena Orestes often~tymes represented on scaffoldes in playes.
1579 W. Wilkinson Confut. Familye of Loue f. 47 Brought in lyke a mute vpon a scaffold, which departeth dumbe.
1599 A. Hume Hymnes sig. F2 Make scaffalds clare for cumlie comedies.
1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod iii. ii. 143 The ecclesiastical plays..were usually performed in churches, or chapels, upon temporary scaffolds erected for that purpose.]
figurative.1594 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. II. 564 In the middest of such a..wonderfull scaffold and theatre.1655 Ld. Orrery Parthenissa IV. ii. vii. 676 You ought to have so much respect, as not to be a publick Spectacle on an infamous Scaffold.
5. A raised platform or stand for holding the spectators of a tournament, theatrical performance, etc. Also, a gallery in a theatre or church. Obsolete.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > [noun] > stand for spectators
scaffold1470
scaffolding1537
society > leisure > sport > place for sports or games > [noun] > accommodation for spectators
scaffold1470
scaffolding1537
stand1615
pergolaa1641
box seat1779
spectatory1829
ringside1849
box1860
ring-seat1889
ringside seat1897
terracing1902
terrace1950
1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur vi. vi. 191 There were scaffoldis and holes that lordes and ladyes myghte beholde and to gyue the pryse.
1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1901) I. i. xxi. 119 Þai war constrenit to mak public setis and scaffaldis in commoun placis quhare playis war devisit.
1597 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 1st 3 Bks. i. iii. 9 Shame that the Muses should be bought and sold, For euery peasants brasse, on each scaffold.
1638 R. Montagu Articles Diocese of Norwich sig. A2 Is your Church scaffolded every where or in part? do those scaffolds so made, annoy any mans seat, or hinder the lights of any windows?
1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 1610 The other side was op'n, where the throng On banks and scaffolds under Skie might stand. View more context for this quotation
1727 MSS. Dk. Portland (Hist. MSS. Comm.) VI. 19 I hope to get a good place in the Abbey for Lady Margaret Harley, though till the scaffolds are built I can't yet tell whereabouts it will be.
1770 J. Langhorne & W. Langhorne tr. Plutarch Lives (1879) II. 891/2 There was a show of gladiators to be exhibited..and most of the magistrates had caused scaffolds to be erected round the place, in order to let them out for hire.
figurative.1661 O. Felltham Resolves (rev. ed.) 259 By setting us upon an open and adjacent Scaffold, it gives us a view of the actions..that have sway'd the affairs of the World.
6. An elevated platform on which a criminal is executed. to go to the scaffold (= ‘to be executed’), to bring or send to the scaffold, etc. Hence the scaffold is often put for ‘execution’, ‘capital punishment’.
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society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > hanging > [noun] > gallows > parts of > platform
stagec1400
scaffold1548
scaffold step1843
1548 Hall's Vnion: Richard III f. xl He was at Salsburye..on a newe skaffolde beheded.
1592 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) viii. xl. 177 Shee vnabashed, mounting now the Skaffold, theare attends The fatall Stroke.
1598 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus Annales xiv. iv. 204 He brought to the skaffold many descended of noble houses.
1769 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) I. xiv. 92 Paths, which naturally conduct a minister to the scaffold.
1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth i, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. III. 19 I knew at Paris a criminal..who suffered the sentence..showing no particular degree of timidity upon the scaffold.
1849 A. Alison Hist. Europe from French Revol. (new ed.) III. xiii. 92 We have..weighed the scaffold against the oppression of the Convention, and preferred the scaffold.
1871 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest IV. xviii. 256 The one man whom..William sent to the scaffold on a political charge.
7. A raised framework of wood used for other purposes; among the North American Indians, for the disposal of the dead (cf. scaffold v. 4). Also, a framework upon which tobacco is dried.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > support > [noun] > that which supports > supporting framework
cradle1379
cratch1382
frame1388
brandreth1483
scaffold?1523
crate1526
bone1542
framework1578
anatomy1591
scaffoldage1609
brake1623
truss1654
skeletona1658
carcass1663
box frame1693
crib1693
scaffolding1789
staddlea1800
gantry1810
cradling1823
potence1832
ossaturea1878
tower1970
the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > other means of disposal > [noun] > exposure > structure for
scaffold1777
Tower of Silence1800
society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for working with other materials > [noun] > with tobacco
scaffold1784
prise-beam1800
tobacco-gratera1877
tobacco-cutter1877
tobacco-wheel1877
?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xviiv It is better to lay thy pees and beanes without vpon a reke than other corne, and it is better vpon a scaffolde than vpon the grounde.
1634 W. Wood New Englands Prospect i. x. 43 There was made here a ships loading of fish the last yeare, where still stands the stages, and drying scaffolds.
1777 W. Anderson Jrnl. 2 Sept. in J. Cook Jrnls. (1967) III. ii. 983 There is here a very large scaffold or Whatta on which the offerings of fruits..are laid.
1784 J. F. D. Smyth Tour U.S.A. II. 134 When the tobacco plants are cut and brought to the scaffolds.
1811 H. M. Brackenridge Jrnl. 4 Apr. in Views Louisiana (1814) 203 A kind of scaffolds, ten or fifteen feet in height, which I was informed were erected by the neighboring settlers for the purpose of shooting the deer by moon light... The hunter ascends the scaffold, and remains until the deer approaches.
1811 H. M. Brackenridge Jrnl. 4 July in Views Louisiana (1814) 261 The scaffolds are supported with four forks, and sufficiently large to receive one or two bodies.
1886 C. G. W. Lock Tobacco 75 Some prefer hanging the tobacco on scaffolds in the field until it is ready to be put in the barn and cured by the fire.
1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 424/2 Red shipping qualities [of tobacco] are prepared by leaving the cut stems either in the field or hung on scaffolds in the barns for a few days to wilt and wither in the air.
8. Iron-founding. ‘An obstruction in a blast furnace above the tuyeres caused by an accumulation or shelf of pasty, unreduced materials, adhering to the lining’ (Raymond Mining Gloss. 1881).
ΚΠ
1861 W. Fairbairn Iron 48 So that the materials..may [not]..be so retarded as to adhere in a half-liquid state to the brick-work, and cool there, thus forming what are known by the name of scaffolds.
1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 172 Scaffold, an obstruction in a blast furnace above the tuyeres caused by an accumulation or shelf of pasty, unreduced materials, adhering to the lining.
1884 W. H. Greenwood Steel & Iron (ed. 2) vii. 142 When a scaffold is discovered, the blast is eased so as to reduce the support from below due to the pressure of blast.
1892 Min. Evid. Labour Comm. Group A. II. 304 The variation of the temperature in the furnace itself would cause what are technically called scaffolds.

Compounds

C1. (In sense 1.)
a.
scaffold board n.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood in specific form > [noun] > board or plank > for other uses
pipe-board1386
barrel-board1565
scaffold board1592
box board?1793
1592–3 Act 35 Eliz. c. 11 §1 So muche of Shaffolde Borde in quantitye as the saide Clapborde amounteth unto.
1853 C. Tomlinson Cycl. Useful Arts (1854) II. 584/2 The scaffold boards are supported by the putlogs.
scaffold flake n. [flake n.1 1] Obsolete
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > equipment > ladder > scaffolding > [noun] > part of
scaffold flake1365
severy1399
site1901
1365–6 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 127 20 scaffalde flakes factis ad dictas fenestras.
scaffold pole n.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > equipment > ladder > scaffolding > [noun] > part of > pole
scatch1420
cabera1522
scaffolding pole1759
scaffold pole1798
trestle-post1799
1798 W. Hutton Life 7 If a straggling scaffold pole could be found.
1862 Sat. Rev. 15 Mar. 298 The scaffold poles round the Guards Memorial.
scaffold vantage n.
ΚΠ
1884 R. Browning Camel-driver in Ferishtah's Fancies Reason aims to raise Some make-shift midway scaffold-vantage, whence It may..peer below.
b.
scaffold bracket n. (see quot. 1875).
ΚΠ
1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Scaffold-bracket, an implement to form a footing for a board to support a person in roofing.
scaffold hole n. a putlog-hole.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [noun] > hole into which a peg, pin, knob, etc., fits
scaffold holec1568
pinhole1659
scaffolding hole1663
keyhole1703
keyway1835
winder-hole1840
knob hole1851
wall-box1875
c1568 in H. J. F. Swayne Churchwardens' Accts. Sarum (1896) 115 John clerke making scaffold holes, 4 d.
1774 G. White Let. 26 Feb. in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 179 Perhaps they nestle in the scaffold holes of some old or new deserted building.
C2. (In sense 4.)
a.
scaffold pageantry n. Obsolete
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > [noun] > exhibition on the stage
stagery1642
scaffold pageantry1687
1687 Refl. on Hind & P. 24 No more than a Mountebank is to be credited, who after a deal of Scaffold-Pageantry to draw Audience [etc.].
scaffold wheel n. Obsolete
ΚΠ
1584 in Coventry Corpus Christi Plays (1902) 91 A iron pynne and a cotter for the skaffolde whele.
b.
scaffold play n. Obsolete a mystery play.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > mystery or miracle play
miraclec1395
resurrectiona1400
wonder1435
mystery1555
scaffold play1565
miracle play1602
mystery play1808
1565 T. Stapleton Fortresse of Faith f. 138 As if in scaffold plaies, he looked to haue napkins cast vp.
scaffold-player n.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > actor > [noun] > actor in specific type of play > in mystery or miracle plays
miracle playera1400
prophet1526
scaffold-player1559
pageanter1610
pageanteer1624
vexillator1801
1559 in J. Strype Ann. Reformation (1725) I. ii. ix. 436 The preachers and scaffold players of this newe religion.
C3. (In sense 6.)
scaffold step n. Obsolete
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > hanging > [noun] > gallows > parts of > platform
stagec1400
scaffold1548
scaffold step1843
1843 J. M. Neale Songs & Ballads for People 21 So steadfastly the scaffold-steps That good Archbishop trod.
1869 R. Browning Ring & Bk. IV. xii. 204 Guido was last to mount the scaffold-steps..as atrociousest in crime.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

scaffoldv.

/ˈskafəld/
Forms: Also 1500s scafold, 1600s schaffold, 1600s scaffole.
Etymology: < scaffold n. Compare Old French eschafauder.
1. transitive. To furnish with a platform, stand, or gallery. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > build or provide with specific parts [verb (transitive)] > furnish with platform or stand
scaffold1548
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. xv The Hall was scafolded and rayled on all partes.
1621 H. Elsynge Notes Deb. House of Lords (1870) 95 The Lower House desyre that the p[ainted] ch[amber] be scaffolde.
1636 E. Pagitt Christianographie (ed. 2) iii. 101 The streets were scaffolded [1640 scaffoled] and covered with precious cloth.
1638 R. Montagu Articles Diocese of Norwich sig. A2 Is your Church scaffolded every where or in part? do those scaffolds so made, annoy any mans seat, or hinder the lights of any windows?
1650 R. Stapleton tr. F. Strada De Bello Belgico i. 13 The Lists now set up, and scaffolded like a stage.
2.
a. To put scaffolding up to (a building). Also intransitive in indirect passive with unto.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > build or construct [verb (transitive)] > scaffold
scaffolda1662
a1662 P. Heylyn Cyprianus Anglicus (1668) 222 The Tower or Steeple [was] Scaffolded to the very top, with an intent to take it down to the very Arches.
1665 J. Webb Vindic. Stone-Heng Restored 213 They must of necessity be scaffolded unto, or underpropt at least.
1665 J. Webb Vindic. Stone-Heng Restored 230 Can..such stupendious Stones..be..wrought, raised, scaffolded unto, set and finished in five Moneths?
1676 C. Hatton in E. M. Thompson Corr. Family of Hatton (1878) I. (Camden) 134 The middle of Westminster Hall wase all schaffolded.
1836 E. Howard Rattlin lxx It was scaffolded to the very attics.
b. transferred. To support with poles.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > support > [verb (transitive)] > prop
shore1340
undershore1393
prop1507
underpropa1535
crutch1641
rance1680
trig1711
spur1733
stut1808
spurn1865
scaffold1884
1884 Harper's Mag. Feb. 394/2 The apple-trees were scaffolded with great stakes to keep their branches from breaking.
c. figurative. To prop up.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > strengthening or confirmation of immaterial things > strengthen or confirm immaterial things [verb (transitive)]
strengha1175
strengthc1200
astrengthc1250
strength1340
confirmc1386
affirma1393
forcec1430
renforce?1473
corrobore1485
re-enforcec1485
reinforcec1485
stronga1500
consolidate?a1547
strengthen1546
sinewize1600
sinew1625
confortate1651
nervate1682
scaffolda1693
corroborate1698
substantiate1792
nerve1856
stouten1887
affirm1899
toughen1901
to put stuffing into1938
a1693 C. Blount Dial. K. W. & K. J. 26 in Misc. Wks. (1695) New Titles may be Scaffolded with Laws.
3. To send to the scaffold; to execute. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > execute [verb (transitive)]
slayc1175
to put to deatha1450
to hang, draw, and quarter1465
strikec1480
execute1483
justify1531
execution1565
scaffold1716
to have or get one's gruel1797
1716 Mem. in J. H. Burton Lives of Forbes & Ld. Lovat (1847) v. 116 I was sent to the castle, I believe, to be scaffolded next day if I had not been delivered.
4. To place (food) on a raised framework of wood, for the purpose of drying it or protecting it from animals; among North American Indians, to expose (corpses) on a scaffold (see scaffold n. 7).
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the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > removal of corpse > dispose of corpse [verb (transitive)] > expose on framework
scaffold1775
the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preserving or pickling > pickle or preserve [verb (transitive)] > dry > dry on frame
scaffold1806
1775 J. Adair Hist. Amer. Indians 323 (note) They..scaffolded their dead kinsman.
1806 Z. M. Pike Acct. Exped. Sources Mississippi (1810) ii. 155 In the afternoon we scaffolded some meat.
1862 D. Wilson Prehistoric Man II. xxii. 292 The remains of those whose bodies had been scaffolded.
5. intransitive. Iron-founding. To form a ‘scaffold’.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > furnace or kiln > furnace > actions of furnace [verb (intransitive)] > become choked
gob1832
hang1878
scaffold1880
1880 Wright in Encycl. Brit. XIII. 296 When a furnace shows a tendency to ‘scaffold’ (by the fritting together of lumps which form a comparatively solid mass inside the furnace, preventing a charge from descending properly).

Derivatives

ˈscaffolded adj.
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1862 D. Wilson Prehistoric Man II. xxii. 292 When the Mandans buried the remains of their scaffolded dead, they left the skull uninterred.
1871 E. B. Tylor Primitive Culture II. xii. 40 The Samoyed's scaffolded coffin.
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