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A raised platform, seat, or stand, used for the purpose of exhibiting persons or actions to the public view, making proclamations, or the like.
A temporary platform, dais, or other raised stage, for any public ceremony.
A wooden platform or framework; = scaffold, n. 3, 4, 7. Obsolete.