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scaffold
noun
- a temporary wooden or metal framework for supporting workmen and materials during the erecting, repairing, or painting of a building, etc.
- a raised platform on which criminals are executed, as by hanging
- a temporary wooden stage or platform, as that on which medieval plays were presented
- any raised framework
transitive verb
to furnish or support with, or put on, a scaffold
See scaffold in American Heritage Dictionary 4
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