Crossword-Solution: SCAFFOLD
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Scaffold | n. | 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. |
| Scaffold | n. | Specifically, a stage or elevated platform for the execution of a criminal; as, to die on the scaffold. |
| Scaffold | n. | An accumulation of adherent, partly fused material forming a shelf, or dome-shaped obstruction, above the tuyeres in a blast furnace. |
| Scaffold | v. t. | To furnish or uphold with a scaffold. |
We have 15 clues for the answer “SCAFFOLD”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Painter's platform | 1 answer |
| Painter's structure. | 1 answer |
| Platform for executions | 1 answer |
| Temporary structure around a building | 1 answer |
| a temporary arrangement erected around a building for convenience of workers | 1 answer |
| Painter's support | 2 answers |
| Gallows | 8 answers |
| RAISED platform | 9 answers |
| Construction site sight | 15 answers |
| Gibbet | 28 answers |
| Stage | 37 answers |
| Structure | 37 answers |
| Platform | 39 answers |
| Staging ___ | 52 answers |
| Form | 96 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with SCAFFOLD (5)
Meagre, indeed, and cold, was the sympathy that a transgressor might look for, from such bystanders, at the scaffold.
Will Hyde die upon the scaffold? or will he find courage to release himself at the last moment? God knows; I am careless; this is my true hour of death, and what is to follow concerns another than myself.
Joyce recited a furious and fantastic and denunciatory speech on the scaffold which had imposing passages of school-boy eloquence in it, and gave him a reputation on the spot as an orator, and his name, later, in the society’s records, of the “Martyr Orator.” He went to his death breathing slaughter and charging his society to “avenge his murder.” If he knew anything of human nature he knew that to plenty of young fellows present in that great crowd he was a grand hero—and enviably situated.
The popular imagination, indeed, long kept itself busy with the affair of the old Puritan Pyncheon and the wizard Maule; the curse which the latter flung from his scaffold was remembered, with the very important addition, that it had become a part of the Pyncheon inheritance.
Every one of those had perished in the massacre; every human creature he had since cared for and parted with, had died on the scaffold.
Quotes with SCAFFOLD (3)
When I became convinced that the Universe is natural — that all the ghosts and gods are myths, there entered into my brain, into my soul, into every drop of my blood, the sense, the feeling, the joy of freedom. The walls of my prison crumbled and fell, the dungeon was flooded with light and all the bolts, and bars, and manacles became dust. I was no longer a servant, a serf or a slave. There was for me no master in all the wide world -- not even in infinite space. I was free …
Truth is a risky proposition. It's the nature of mediocre human beings to believe that lies are necessary, that they serve a purpose, that truth is subversive, that candor is dangerous, that the very scaffold of communal life is supported by lies.
Look, look,' cried the count, seizing the young man's hands - "look, for on my soul it is curious. Here is a man who had resigned himself to his fate, who was going to the scaffold to die - like a coward, it is true, but he was about to die without resistance. Do you know what gave him strength? - do you know what consoled him? It was, that another partook of his punishment - that another partook of his anguish - that another was to die before him. Lead two sheep to the butch…
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Appears in: NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1951–2013).