Word Finder - scaffold

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A structure made of scaffolding for workers to stand on while working on a building.

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An elevated platform on which a criminal is executed.

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An elevated platform on which dead bodies are ritually disposed of, as by some Native American tribes.

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An accumulation of adherent, partly fused material forming a shelf or dome-shaped obstruction above the tuyeres in a blast furnace.

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A structure that provides support for some other material.

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To set up a scaffolding; to surround a building with scaffolding.

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To sustain; to provide support for.

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To dispose of the bodies of the dead on a scaffold or raised platform, as by some Native American tribes.

He met his death on the scaffold with calmness and dignity.

He was arrested and would have died on the scaffold if sympathisers had not rescued him.

Strafford was recalled to expiate his career on the scaffold; the army was disbanded; and the helm of the state remained in the hands of a land-jobber and of a superannuated Rebel lion soldier.

He made a short speech on the scaffold, expressing his repentance, and mounted the ladder last and with assistance, being weak from torture and illness.

His father, a Huguenot who had been one of the conspirators of Amboise, strengthened his Protestant sympathies by showing him, while they were passing through that town on their way to Paris, the heads of the conspirators exposed upon the scaffold, and adjuring him not to spare his own head in order to avenge their death.

It was not until a large number of lives had been sacrificed, and many bushrangers brought to the scaffold, that the offence was thoroughly stamped out in New South Wales, only to reappear some years afterwards in Victoria under somewhat similar conditions.

The claims of Holland were overthrown and the head of Oldenbarneveldt fell upon the scaffold (1619).

After a public examination, begun on the 9th of January and lasting six days, and another conducted in the prison, she was, on the 10th of March, publicly accused as a heretic and witch, and, being in the end found guilty, she made her submission at the scaffold on the 24th of May, and received pardon.

At the scaffold he was approached by a Protestant clergyman who asked him to confess his treason.

The weight caused the scaffold tripod to slip - heavy bits of metal narrowly missing the unloading team.

He died in the same year on the scaffold.

The others were all said to have "confessed in a manner" on the scaffold, but much weight cannot be placed on these general confessions, which were, according to the custom of the time, a declaration of submission to the king's will and of general repentance rather than acknowledgment of the special crime.

The corn was commonly housed; but if there be a want of room, he advises that the ricks be built on a scaffold and not upon the ground.

Griffenfeldt was pardoned on the scaffold, at the very moment when the axe was about to descend.

In his last words on the scaffold he alludes to the dangers and slanders he had endured labouring to keep an uniformity in the external service of God; and Bacon's conception of a spiritual union founded on variety and liberty was one completely beyond his comprehension.

The thinnings of the larch woods in the Highlands are in demand for railway sleepers, scaffold poles, and mining timber, and are applied to a variety of agricultural purposes.

But immediately above this level the charge is relatively viscous, because here the temperature has fallen so far that it is now at the melting or formation point of the slag, which therefore is pasty, liable to weld the whole mass together es so much tar would, and thus to obstruct the descent of the charge, or in short to " scaffold."

Early on the morning of the 31st of October 1793 the Girondists were conveyed to the scaffold, singing on the way the Marseillaise and keeping up the strain till one by one they were guillotined.

During the Civil War the bishop, against whom no charges were brought in parliament, lived undisturbed at Fulham Palace, and his advice was often sought by the king, who had a very high opinion of him, and who at his execution selected him to be with him on the scaffold and to administer to him the last consolations of religion.

Opinions, no doubt, will always differ as to the wisdom or authority of the policy which brought Charles to the scaffold.

When Lyons was taken by the army of the Convention in 1793, the father of Ampere, who, holding the office of juge de paix, had stood out resolutely against the previous revolutionary excesses, was at once thrown into prison, and soon after perished on the scaffold.

The rood of Bromholm was a reputed fragment of the Cross which attracted many pilgrims. To the south of North Walsham is North Walsham Heath, whither in June 1381 a body of insurgents in connexion with the Peasants' Revolt were driven from before Norwich by Henry le Despenser, bishop of Norwich, and defeated; after which their leader, Geoffrey Lister, and others were sent to the scaffold.

In 1632 the duke of Montmorency's conspiracy brought its leader to the scaffold.

In 1803 an insurrection headed by Robert Emmett, a young barrister of much promise, broke out, but was immediately quelled, with the loss of some lives in the tumult, and the death of its leaders on the scaffold.

According to one account, Darnley privately assured his uncle George Douglas of his wife's infidelity; he had himself, if he might be believed, discovered the secretary in the queen's apartment at midnight, under circumstances yet more unequivocally compromising than those which had brought Chastelard to the scaffold.

In 1723 Major Davel, at Lausanne, and in 1749 Henzi, in Bern itself, tried to break down this monopoly, but in each case paid the penalty of failure on the scaffold.

In Scotland episcopacy was set up, the covenant to which Charles had taken so many solemn oaths burnt by the common hangman, and Argyll brought to the scaffold, while the kingdom was given over to the savage and corrupt administration of Lauderdale.

Mary entered London amid unparalleled popular rejoicings, and Northumberland was sent to a well-deserved death on the scaffold.

Their blood flowed on the scaffold.

In November the duke of Orleans, who had styled himself Philippe Egalite, had sat in the Convention, and had voted for the king's death, went to the scaffold.

On the day after seventyone members of the Commune followed them to the scaffold.

In January 1680 he addressed to the king a long letter on the subject of his sins; he was known to have received the dangerous confidence of Wilmot, earl of Rochester, in his last illness; and he was even suspected, unjustly, in 1683, of having composed the paper drawn up on the eve of death by William Russell, Lord Russell, whom he attended to the scaffold.

On the scaffold were approximately 20 Chinese coolies who were painting the side of the ship.

This study presents a proof of concept for monitoring scaffold degradation on-line within a culture environment.

He used these fluxions like the scaffold of a building, as things to be laid aside or got rid of.

Daley was hanged by the infamous English hangman, William Marwood on a scaffold erected at the North end of the jail.

Scaffold / hoarding License In order to regulate the placing of scaffolding / hoardings on the highway you are required to obtain a license.

The next noon but one an almost insensible female form was carried or rather dragged to the scaffold.

Sand ladders - 24 " x 12 " or two short scaffold planks 24 " x 9 " x 1.5.

Helped carry the scaffold pole loaded with cameras down to Millenium Square.

For example I think the scaffold will probably be a light color because source 4 seems pretty reliable.

Wearing the same dress that she had worn at her trial and carrying her prayer book Lady Jane ascended the scaffold.

Digby was the first to mount the scaffold, which he did unrepentant.

A common approach is to place a porous biomaterial scaffold, seeded with cells, in a flow perfusion bioreactor.

On contact with the tissue, the solution was transformed into a solid scaffold.

You could use a podium or tower scaffold for these jobs.

A metal scaffold called a ' stent ' is then inserted to hold the artery open.

Antigenic molecules will be chemically synthesized from peptides on a ' scaffold ' to help hold them in a correct position.

This offer is for a like for like industrial scaffold tower only.

An insurrection in the north, headed by the earl of Huntly under pretext of rescuing from justice the life which his son had forfeited by his share in a homicidal brawl, was crushed at a blow by the Lord James against whose life, as well as against his sister's liberty, the conspiracy of the Gordons had been aimed, and on whom, after the father had fallen in fight and the son had expiated his double offence on the scaffold, the leading rebel's earldom of Murray was conferred by the gratitude of the queen.