1 a platform used when EXECUTING criminals by cutting off their heads or hanging them from a rope:
to die on the scaffold * to be sent / led to the scaffold
2 a structure made of scaffolding, for workers to stand on when they are working on a building:
scaffold poles / boards * a scaffold bridge
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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