scaffold

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.

A raised wooden framework or platform.

A platform used in the execution of condemned prisoners, as by hanging or beheading.

To provide or support with a raised framework or platform.

To place on a raised framework or platform.

To furnish with a scaffold; sustain; uphold, as with a scaffold.

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.

A temporary gallery or stage raised either as a place for exhibiting a spectacle or for spectators to stand or sit.

The gallery or highest tier of seats in a theater.

A stage or platform, usually elevated, for the execution of a criminal.