The definition of a scaffold is a temporary wooden platform that workers can stand on when they are doing work, or a raised platform on which a criminal can be publicly executed.
(noun)See scaffold in Webster's New World College Dictionary
noun
Origin: ME scafald < OFr escafalt < es- (L ex-, out) + VL *catafalicum: see catafalque
transitive verb
See scaffold in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun
Origin:
Origin: Middle English
Origin: , from Medieval Latin scaffaldus
Origin: , of Old French origin
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