Scaffold vs Falsework - What's the difference?
scaffold | falsework |
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.
(engineering) A temporary framework used in the building of bridges and arched structures in order to hold items in place until the structure is able to support itself.
(engineering) Scaffolding, a temporary frame serving to support and brace a building under construction until it can stand alone.
* 2003 , , The Devil in the White City , p. 236:
As nouns the difference between falsework and scaffold
is that falsework is a temporary framework used in the building of bridges and arched structures in order to hold items in place until the structure is able to support itself while scaffold is a structure made of scaffolding, for workers to stand on while working on a building.As a verb scaffold is
to set up a scaffolding; to surround a building with scaffolding.scaffold
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(en noun)Derived terms
* go to the scaffold * send to the scaffold * superscaffold, superscaffoldingDerived terms
* scaffoldage * scaffolder * scaffoldingExternal links
* * *falsework
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(en-noun)- ... the woefully incomplete Ferris Wheel ... was a half-moon of steel encased in a skyscraper of wooden falsework .