scaffold

Meanings

1. 1
   noun A structure made of scaffolding for workers to stand on while working on a building.
2. 2
   noun An elevated platform on which a criminal is executed.
3. 3
   noun An elevated platform on which dead bodies are ritually disposed of, as by some Native American tribes.
4. 4
   noun An accumulation of adherent, partly fused material forming a shelf or dome-shaped obstruction above the tuyeres in a blast furnace.
5. 5
   noun A structure that provides support for some other material.
6. 6
   verb To set up a scaffolding; to surround a building with scaffolding.
7. 7
   verb To sustain; to provide support for.
8. 8
   verb To dispose of the bodies of the dead on a scaffold or raised platform, as by some Native American tribes.