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ow, etc. Pardon, gentles all, The flat, unraised spirits that have dared On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object. Shak.

A scaffold. [R.] Shak.

A scaffold; a supporting framework; as, the scaffolding of the body. Pope.

A suspended scaffold used in shafts.

works (Civil Engin.), construction works to facilitate the erection of the main work, as scaffolding, bridge centering, etc.

A scaffolding or frame carrying a crane or other structure. Knight.

A loft or scaffold for hay.

merly, hoo.] The duke . . . pulled out his sword and cried "Hoo!" Chaucer. An herald on a scaffold made an hoo. Chaucer.

A pole for supporting a scaffold.

zontal piece of timber secured to the uprights and supporting floor timbers, a staircase, scaffolding, or the like. It differs from an intertie in being intended to carry weight. [Written also ligger.] Ledger bait, fishing bait attached to a floating line fastened to the bank of a stream, pond, etc. Walton. J. H. Walsh…

To get up on anything, as a platform or scaffold; especially, to seat one's self on a horse for riding.

There was scarce a family of note which had not poured out its blood on the field or the scaffold. Prescott.

One of the short pieces of timber on which the planks forming the floor of a scaffold are laid, -- one end resting on the ledger of the scaffold, and the other in a hole left in the wall temporarily for the purpose. Oxf. Gloss.

A floor elevated for the convenience of mechanical work, or the like; a scaffold; a staging.

An upright support, as one of the poles of a scaffold; any upright in framing.

to take down a potion. (c) To pull down; to pull to pieces; as, to take down a house or a scaffold. (d) To record; to write down; as, to take down a man's words at the time he utters them. -- To take effect, To take fire. See under Effect, and Fire. -- To take ground to the right or to the left (Mil.), to extend the…

A movable frame or support for anything, as scaffolding, consisting of three or four legs secured to a top piece, and forming a sort of stool or horse, used by carpenters, masons, and other workmen; also, a kind of framework of strong posts or piles, and crossbeams, for supporting a bridge, the track of a railway, or t…

A viaduct, pier, scaffold, or the like, resting on trestles connected together.

To roll down; to fall suddenly and violently; to be precipitated; as, to tumble from a scaffold. He who tumbles from a tower surely has a greater blow than he who slides from a molehill. South.

to seven inches diameter, and twenty to forty feet long, sometimes roughly hewn, used for scaffoldings, and sometimes for slight and common roofs, for which use it is split. [Spelt also ufer.] [Eng.] Gwilt.