scaffold
n
1 frame made of long metal tubes put up next to a building so that builders, painters, etc can work on it, or to support a platform 脚手架; 建筑架.
2 platform on which criminals are executed 绞架; 断头台
go to the scaffold, ie be executed 上断头台.
🔁 扩展释义
*['skæfәld]n. 脚手架, 绞刑台【化】 脚手架相关词组: send sb to the scaffold