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Ladders vs Scaffolds - What's the difference?

ladders | scaffolds |

As a noun ladders

is .

As a verb scaffolds is

(scaffold).

ladders

English

Noun

(head)

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    scaffolds

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (scaffold)

    • scaffold

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A structure made of scaffolding, for workers to stand on while working on a building.
  • An elevated platform on which a criminal is executed.
  • (metalworking) An accumulation of adherent, partly fused material forming a shelf or dome-shaped obstruction above the tuyeres in a blast furnace.

    • Derived terms

    * go to the scaffold * send to the scaffold * superscaffold, superscaffolding

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To set up a scaffolding; to surround a building with scaffolding.

    • Derived terms

    * scaffoldage * scaffolder * scaffolding

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