noun a temporary arrangement erected around a building for convenience of workers.verb provide with a scaffold for support.noun a platform from which criminals are executed (hanged or beheaded).
noun In embryology, a temporary structure outlining parts to be subsequently formed in or upon it a framework: as, the cartilaginous scaffold of the skull.noun An elevated platform upon which dead bodies are placed-a mode of disposing of the dead practised by some tribes, as of North American Indians, instead of burial a kind of permanent bier.noun A temporary structure upon which workmen stand in erecting the walls of a building.noun A stage or platform, usually elevated, for the execution of a criminal.noun The gallery or highest tier of seats in a theater.noun A temporary gallery or stage raised either as a place for exhibiting a spectacle or for spectators to stand or sit.To lay or place on a scaffold particularly, to place (dead bodies) on a scaffold to decay or be eaten by birds, as is customary with some uncivilized tribes.
To furnish with a scaffold sustain uphold, as with a scaffold.transitive verb To place on a raised framework or platform.transitive verb To provide or support with a raised framework or platform.noun A platform used in the execution of condemned prisoners, as by hanging or beheading.noun A raised wooden framework or platform.noun A temporary platform, either supported from below or suspended from above, on which workers sit or stand when performing tasks at heights above the ground.Hence, to scaffold an oration is to give it a structure that supports the hearers' appreciation of the substance of a speaker's oratory.From The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition. But Churchill's use in the title of his article implies that "to scaffold" may suggest the action of supporting something. Hence, a hanging takes place upon a "scaffoldage" (gallows, Shakespeare's T&R). The difference is that the scaffold never leaves or no one ever dismantles it, and that the incidents or actions that take place upon it are distinct from it in substance, and finally that the scaffold's purpose is to enable people to see that which takes place upon it. Given Churchill appreciation of Shakespeare, it may be that a scaffold or "scaffoldage" means the stage structure, which is how Shakespeare uses it, rather than as an exo- or temporary support structure. Although he uses the word in the title, he never uses it in the body of the text. Winston Churchill wrote but never published an incisive article entitled, "The Scaffolding of Rhetoric" in which he outlines some principles of great oratory.
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