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Synonyms for scaffolded

Grammar : Adj
Spell : skaf-uh ld, -ohld
Phonetic Transcription : ˈskæf əld, -oʊld

Définition of scaffolded

Origin :
  • mid-14c., "wooden framework used in building, etc., temporary structure for workmen to make walls," a shortening of an Old North French variant of Old French eschafaut "scaffold" (Modern French échafaud), probably altered (by influence of eschace "a prop, support") from chaffaut, from Vulgar Latin *catafalicum (see catafalque). Meaning "platform for a hanging" is from 1550s. Dutch schavot, German Schafott, Danish skafot are from French. As a verb from 1540s.
  • As in framed : adj made of wood
Example sentences :
  • When we came to the forks, we found that the skins we had scaffolded were all safe.
  • Extract from : « Captives Among the Indians » by James Smith
  • Weather-beaten wooden buildings there are, scaffolded structures, shaken by the vibration of coal-crushing machinery within.
  • Extract from : « The Immigrant Tide, Its Ebb and Flow » by Edward A. Steiner
  • In the afternoon we scaffolded some meat, and nearly completed the frame of a skin canoe, which we concluded to build.
  • Extract from : « The Expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Volume II (of 3) » by Elliott Coues
  • The sticks are scaffolded to the regulation height, all alike in length, amply soldered in the middle and free at either end.
  • Extract from : « The Life of the Fly » by J. Henri Fabre
  • These bears and other beasts are there baited in plots of ground, scaffolded about for the beholders to stand safe.
  • Extract from : « The Survey of London » by John Stow
  • Then the car halted on the edge of the building-pit and they blinked down and up at the scaffolded monster.
  • Extract from : « Martyr » by Alan Edward Nourse
  • A few hours later I tore myself away and returned to the hangar, where the Pioneer now reposed in a scaffolded cradle.
  • Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science July 1930 » by Various

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