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Another word for scaffold

Noun

  1. A temporary framework with a floor, used by workmen

    2. See also:

    machine

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Another word for scaffold

Noun
    2. See also:

    platform

    building

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • He met his death on the scaffold with calmness and dignity.

  • He was arrested and would have died on the scaffold if sympathisers had not rescued him.

  • Strafford was recalled to expiate his career on the scaffold; the army was disbanded; and the helm of the state remained in the hands of a land-jobber and of a superannuated Rebel lion soldier.

  • The incorruptible wanted to ship. become the invulnerable and the scaffold of the guillotine waa clowded.

  • Those taken in open rebellion were deported by Lord Durham to save them from the scaffold; and although 90 were condemned to death only 12 were executed.

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