Scaffold vs Putlog - What's the difference?
scaffold | putlog |
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.
(architecture) 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.
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As nouns the difference between scaffold and putlog
is that scaffold is a structure made of scaffolding, for workers to stand on while working on a building while putlog is 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.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
* * *putlog
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(en noun)citation, genre=Construction , publisher= , isbn=9781852631246 , page=7-15 , passage=Where putlogs' are not required to support boards, a '''putlog''' must occur within 300mm of each standard. / When bracing is connected to a '''putlog''', the ' putlog must be connected to a ledger. }}
