scaffold

Short definition from Wiktionary

Noun

1. 1
   A structure made of scaffolding for workers to stand on while working on a building.
2. 2
   An elevated platform on which a criminal is executed.
3. 3
   An elevated platform on which dead bodies are ritually disposed of, as by some Native American tribes.
4. 4
   An accumulation of adherent, partly fused material forming a shelf or dome-shaped obstruction above the tuyeres in a blast furnace.
5. 5
   A structure that provides support for some other material.

Verb

1. 1
   To set up a scaffolding; to surround a building with scaffolding.
2. 2
   To sustain; to provide support for.
3. 3
   To dispose of the bodies of the dead on a scaffold or raised platform, as by some Native American tribes.