Definition of: scaffold

(skaf′əld, -ōld) noun
1. A temporary elevated structure for the support of workmen, materials, etc., as in building.
2. A raised wooden framework used for drying hay, tobacco, fish, etc.
3. A platform for the execution of criminals.
4. A stage, as for exhibition purposes.
5. A raised wooden frame formerly used by certain North American Indians for the disposal of their dead.
—v.t.
1. To furnish or support with a scaffold: to scaffold a building in order to repaint the exterior.
2. To place on a scaffold. [<OF (e)schaffaut, escadafaut. Related to CATAFALQUE.]