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Noun scaffold has 2 senses

scaffold - a platform from which criminals are executed (hanged or beheaded)
--₁ is a kind of platform
--₁ is a part of instrument of execution
scaffold - a temporary arrangement erected around a building for convenience of workers
--₂ is a kind of arrangement
--₂ is a part of scaffolding, staging

Verb scaffold has 1 sense

scaffold - provide with a scaffold for support; "scaffold the building before painting it"
--₁ is one way to hold, support, sustain, hold up

Derived form: noun scaffolding₁
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something