Scaffolding

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  • noun. A scaffold or system of scaffolds.
  • noun. Materials used for constructing scaffolds.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. In tobacco-growing, the hanging of the freshly cut plant upon a structure of poles or rails variously supported to wilt before housing: much practised in the heavy export and white Burley districts.
  • noun. A frame or structure for temporary support in an elevated place; in building, a temporary combination of timberwork consisting of upright poles and horizontal pieces, on which are laid boards for supporting the builders when carrying up the different stages or floors of a building, or plasterers when executing their work in the interior of houses. The scaffolding is struck or removed as soon as it has answered its purpose. See cut under putlog.
  • noun. Materials for scaffolds.
  • noun. Figuratively, any sustaining part; a frame or framework, as the skeleton; especially, in embryology, a temporary formation of hard parts to be replaced by or modified into a permanent structure: as, the scaffolding of an embryonic skull.
  • noun. In metallurgy, the formation of a scaffold; an engorgement. See scaffold, 7.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A scaffold; a supporting framework.
  • noun. Materials for building scaffolds.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A temporary modular system of tubes forming a framework used to support people and material in the construction or repair of buildings and other large structures.
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  • noun. a system of scaffolds
  • Word Usage
    "Old Yankee Stadium, at left, is shrouded in scaffolding and left silent while the the new Yankee Stadium, right, is basking in the late afternoon sun on the right and helping to play host to the 2009 World Series."