scaffoldnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈskæf.əʊld/us/ˈskæf.foʊld/scaffold noun [ C ] (FOR WORKING)
a structure made of scaffolding for workers to stand on when they want to reach high parts of a building
US UK cradle a frame that hangs on the side of a building, ship, etc. for people to work from
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Physical supports and supporting
- backbone
- bearing
- bolster
- bookend
- buoy
- burden
- buttress
- cantilever
- groan
- pile
- pillar
- rafter
- runner
- scaffolding
- shore
- shore sth up
- skid
- stanchion
- stem
- stilt
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scaffold noun [ C ] (FOR EXECUTIONS)
a flat raised structure on which criminals are punished by having their heads cut off or by being hanged with a rope around the neck until they die
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Death penalties
- behead
- burn
- capital punishment
- chair
- condemn
- condemn sb to (do) sth
- condemned
- decapitate
- execute
- execution
- executioner
- gallows
- hanging
- hangman
- hung, drawn, and quartered idiom
- noose
- stake
- stone
- string
- string sb up
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