SCAFFOLD, among builders, an assemblage of planks and boards, sustained by trefles and pieces of wood fixed in the wall; whereon masons, brick-layers, &c. stand to work in building high walls, &c. and plasterers in plastering ceilings, &c.
Scaffold also denotes a timber-work raised in the manner of an amphitheatre, for the more commodious viewing any shew or ceremony: it is also used for a little stage, raised in some public place, whereon to behold criminals.