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Upher :: Upher (n.) A fir pole of from four 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..

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

Scaffoldage :: Scaffoldage (n.) A scaffold.

Gauntry :: Gauntry (n.) A scaffolding or frame carrying a crane or other structure.

Trestlework :: Trestlework (n.) A viaduct, pier, scaffold, or the like, resting on trestles connected together..

Ledger :: Ledger (n.) A horizontal 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..

Imp-pole :: Imp-pole (n.) A pole for supporting a scaffold.

Scaffold :: Scaffold (n.) A temporary structure of timber, boards, etc., for various purposes, as for supporting workmen and materials in building, for exhibiting a spectacle upon, for holding the spectators at a show, etc..

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

Tumble :: Tumble (v. i.) To roll down; to fall suddenly and violently; to be precipitated; as, to tumble from a scaffold..

Scaffold :: Scaffold (v. t.) To furnish or uphold with a scaffold.

Scaffolding :: Scaffolding (n.) Materials for building scaffolds.

Standard :: Standard (n.) An upright support, as one of the poles of a scaffold; any upright in framing..

Trestle :: Trestle (n.) 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 the like..

Stage :: Stage (n.) A floor elevated for the convenience of mechanical work, or the like; a scaffold; a staging..

Cradle :: Cradle (n.) A suspended scaffold used in shafts.

Scaffolding :: Scaffolding (n.) A scaffold; a supporting framework; as, the scaffolding of the body..

Scaffold :: Scaffold (n.) Specifically, a stage or elevated platform for the execution of a criminal; as, to die on the scaffold..

Putlog :: Putlog (n.) 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..

Hayloft :: Hayloft (n.) A loft or scaffold for hay.

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