Scaffold
A temporary structure of timber, boards, etc., for various purposes, as for supporting workmen and materials in building, for exhibiting a spectacle upon, for holding the spectators at a show, etc.
Specifically, a stage or elevated platform for the execution of a criminal; as, to die on the scaffold.
An accumulation of adherent, partly fused material forming a shelf, or dome-shaped obstruction, above the tuyeres in a blast furnace.
To furnish or uphold with a scaffold.
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Scaffold Quotations
Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.
James Russell Lowell
It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.
Pierre Corneille
The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.
Pierre Corneille
When one puts up a building one makes an elaborate scaffold to get everything into its proper place. But when one takes the scaffold down, the building must stand by itself with no trace of the means by which it was erected. That is how a musician should work.
Andres Segovia
The school-room sends men to the Legislature, to the bench, and the executive office. The bar-room sends them to the scaffold and hell.
Thomas Jordan Jarvis
I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.
Mother Jones
If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!
Mother Jones
Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
Wendell Phillips
I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword.
Mary Harris Jones
Scaffold Translations
scaffold in Dutch is schavot
scaffold in Italian is patibolo
scaffold in Spanish is andamiada, andamio
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