1. A platform from which criminals are executed (hanged or beheaded)
   "The condemned man was led to the scaffold for his execution"
    
2. A temporary arrangement erected around a building for convenience of workers
   "The painters set up a scaffold to reach the upper floors of the building"

1. Provide with a scaffold for support
   "scaffold the building before painting it"
    
2. Provide a supportive framework for a process or system
   "The new curriculum was scaffolded to enhance student learning"

Derived forms: scaffolded, scaffolding, scaffolds

Type of: arrangement, hold, hold up, platform, support, sustain

Part of: instrument of execution, scaffolding, staging

Encyclopedia: Scaffold