scaffold
3
8.7
- noun
- /ˈskæf.əld/
- NSFW
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cadalso
- He was led through all the people... ...to the scaffold steps.
- steps to the scaffold
- spectacle of the scaffold
Examples
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For his public execution, a simple scaffold had been constructed in Madrid's Plaza Mayor.
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Every year, groups of Anglo-Catholics and other ultra-monarchists... lay wreathes at his statue, before holding a ceremony at the banqueting house... where the king was beheaded on a scaffold set up outside one of the windows.
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And I learned how a woman may be a queen one day... ...and stand on the scaffold the next.
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"I would rather put him up high on a scaffold," she told him.
Fiction book (1992) -
Bring her to the scaffold.
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The young man on the scaffold?
Fiction book (1993) -
From a scaffold at some distance to the left of the palace, I saw... bodies hanging upside down.
Academic text (1995) -
The fortunate were executed forthwith on the scaffold.
Academic text (1999) -
And Mary Surratt becomes the first woman ever to be executed by the United States federal government when she joins Powell, Atzerodt, and Herold on a scaffold at the Old Arsenal Penitentiary.
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On the scaffold, Hardie declared himself 'a martyr to the cause of truth and justice.'
Synonyms
3
9.9
A frame with a beam across the top used for hanging criminals
1
7.5
A wooden frame used to kill people by hanging
1
9.9
A tree or frame used to hang people as punishment
Surface Forms
Etymology
Scaffold also came to mean the public 'platform' used for executions because it was the same raised stage (Old French eschafaud). That's why a scaffold can mean the place where people were put to die in the past.