Crossword clues for scaffold
scaffold
- Hanging here, a pair of females dress down to go outside
- Diner supplied sandwiches, building support
- Temporary structure around a building
- Temporary framework round truck stop is disposed of
- Construction site sight
- Painter's platform
- Platform on which criminals were executed
- Painters' platform
- Metal framework or raised platform
- Building frame for workmen
- Painter's support
- A platform from which criminals are executed (hanged or beheaded)
- A temporary arrangement erected around a building for convenience of workers
- Execution platform
- State in which Pierre is welcoming coffee bar on deserted oil platform
- A spot of capital punishment
- Platform for a couple of fellows in lecture
- Platform for executions
- Place to hang small greasy spoon, antique
- It's put up for work on the outside
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scaffold \Scaf"fold\, v. t. To furnish or uphold with a scaffold.
Scaffold \Scaf"fold\, n. [OF. eschafault, eschafaut, escafaut, escadafaut, F. ['e]chafaud; probably originally the same word as E. & F. catafalque, It. catafalco. See Catafalque.]
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A temporary structure of timber, boards, etc., for various purposes, as for supporting workmen and materials in building, for exhibiting a spectacle upon, for holding the spectators at a show, etc.
Pardon, gentles all, The flat, unraised spirits that have dared On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object.
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Specifically, a stage or elevated platform for the execution of a criminal; as, to die on the scaffold.
That a scaffold of execution should grow a scaffold of coronation.
--Sir P. Sidney. (Metal.) An accumulation of adherent, partly fused material forming a shelf, or dome-shaped obstruction, above the tuy[`e]res in a blast furnace.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., "wooden framework used in building, etc., temporary structure for workmen to make walls," a shortening of an Old North French variant of Old French eschafaut "scaffold" (Modern French échafaud), probably altered (by influence of eschace "a prop, support") from chaffaut, from Vulgar Latin *catafalicum (see catafalque). Meaning "platform for a hanging" is from 1550s. Dutch schavot, German Schafott, Danish skafot are from French. As a verb from 1540s.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A structure made of scaffolding, for workers to stand on while working on a building. 2 An elevated platform on which a criminal is executed. 3 (context metalworking English) An accumulation of adherent, partly fused material forming a shelf or dome-shaped obstruction above the tuyeres in a blast furnace. vb. (context transitive English) To set up a scaffolding; to surround a building with scaffolding.
WordNet
n. a platform from which criminals are executed (hanged or beheaded)
a temporary arrangement erected around a building for convenience of workers
v. provide with a scaffold for support; "scaffold the building before painting it"
Wikipedia
Scaffold and scaffolding may refer to:
Scaffolding is a technique supported by some model–view–controller frameworks, in which the programmer can specify how the application database may be used. The compiler or framework uses this specification, together with pre-defined code templates, to generate the final code that the application can use to create, read, update and delete database entries, effectively treating the templates as a " scaffold" on which to build a more powerful application.
Scaffolding is an evolution of database code generators from earlier development environments, such as Oracle's CASE Generator, and many other 4GL client-server software development products.
Scaffolding was made popular by the Ruby on Rails framework. It has been adapted to other software frameworks, including OutSystems Platform, Express Framework, Play framework, Django, MonoRail, Brail, Symfony, Laravel, CodeIgniter, Yii, CakePHP, Phalcon PHP, Model-Glue, PRADO, Grails, Catalyst, Seam Framework, Spring Roo, ASP.NET Dynamic Data, KumbiaPHP and ASP.NET MVC framework's Metadata Template Helpers.
Scaffold in a barn are loosely laid poles or joists generally above the drive floor on which crops are piled. The term has the same meaning of a temporary, elevated platform in other uses of the word.
A scaffold is a raised, stage-like site for public executions.
The beheading was practiced in public places. The "public spectacle" character of the execution was meant to deter the people from committing crimes, and demonstrate the authority of the Government, while simultaneously acting as a form of entertainment for the masses. For this purpose, the scaffold was often higher than a podium setup, and was therefore also called scaffold.
Initially, beheading by an executioner was usually performed with a sword, axe, or hatchet. Later, executions were performed with a guillotine instead.
Usage examples of "scaffold".
England--before the Court of Assistants or the Privy Council, I will avouch the deed, even though it should build the steps to a scaffold.
Chapter VIII Don Jose de Antequera -- Appoints himself Governor of Asuncion -- Unsettled state of affairs in the town -- He is commanded to relinquish his illegal power -- He refuses, and resorts to arms -- After some success he is defeated and condemned to be executed -- He is shot on his way to the scaffold -- Renewed hatred against the Jesuits -- Their labours among the Indians of the Chaco From the departure of Cardenas in 1650, to about 1720, was the halcyon period of the Jesuit missions in Paraguay.
There was a semblance of order, with decks, a sterncastle, and a single small mast, but the whole thing was cloaked in jury-rigged scaffolding that obscured details.
At the forefront of the crowd, clustered about the base of the scaffold, frisked the Cavaliers and Coquettes of Kokotte.
Some of the Coquettes were pelting the scaffold with scarlet carnations, their own chosen emblem.
Papal Datary, a Florentine by the name of Lorenzo Pucci, was leaving to join the Pope in Bologna, he sought him out and asked if he would speak to Julius in his behalf, try to collect the five hundred ducats still owed him for the half of the vault he had completed, secure permission to begin the second half, money to erect the scaffold.
For had King Charles not been duplicitous, had Prestcott not been a fanatic, had Thurloe not been concerned for his own safety, had Wallis not been vain and cruel, had Bristol not been ambitious, had Bennet not been cynical, had government, in sum, not been government and politicians not what they are, then Sarah Blundy would not have been led to the scaffold and the sacrifice would not have been made.
Such elements lay there behind a substantial barrier of conventional stage machinery and elocutionary scaffolding.
Michael Angelo did not content himself with knowing only the main features of architecture, but wished also to know about everything that could be useful in any way in that profession, such as ties, platforms, scaffolding, and such like, he knew as much of these things as those who profess nothing else, which was exemplified in the time of Julius II.
I imparted to it the will to rise from its scaffolding as I had seen Fal Sivas cause it to do and then to settle down again in its place.
Whether or not Fal Sivas had entered the room before the ship came to rest again upon its scaffolding, I did not know.
If I were destined, indeed, to walk to the scaffold, it seemed that I could do it with a better grace and a gladder courage now.
At the moment when a ball struck on the scaffold of the Fontaine des Innocents Jean Goujon who had found the Pagan chisel of Phidias, Ronsard discovered the lyre of Pindar and founded, aided by his pleiad, the great French lyric school.
Two days running at the end of a week, I returned to Lake Kiboko to see if Kaprow had lowered the Backstep Scaffold for me, and it still did not descend.
Sooty roof to scaffold platform, Jilly folded in to the church with the expectation of finding the third gunman and kicking him in the head, the gut, the gonads, or any other kickable surface that might be presented to her.