a platform from which criminals are executed (hanged or beheaded)
a temporary arrangement erected around a building for convenience of workers
provide with a scaffold for support
"scaffold the building before painting it"
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scaffold
But whether on the scaffold high,
Or in the battle's van,
The fittest place where man can die
Is where he dies for man. [ Michael J. Barry ]
It is the crime that's the disgrace, not the scaffold. [ Corneille ]
Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne. [ Lowell ]
Every step of progress which the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold and from stake to stake. [ Wendell Phillips ]
scaffoldin Scrabble®
The word scaffold is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.
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scaffoldin Words With Friends™
The word scaffold is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.
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