scaffold

scaffold is a 8-letter English word with 7 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 17 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 17 · Words With Friends 19 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. noun. 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.
2. noun. Specifically, a stage or elevated platform for the execution of a criminal; as, to die on the scaffold.
3. noun. An accumulation of adherent, partly fused material forming a shelf, or dome-shaped obstruction, above the tuyeres in a blast furnace.
4. transitive verb. To furnish or uphold with a scaffold.
5. noun. a temporary arrangement erected around a building for convenience of workers
6. noun. a platform from which criminals are executed (hanged or beheaded)
7. verb. provide with a scaffold for support

   "scaffold the building before painting it"

Common word forms

scaffolds, scaffolded, scaffolder, scaffolding

Words from these letters

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