English-Spanish translations for scaffold

• andamiar
• andamio
  Sin embargo, ¿es la seguridad en materia de andamios realmente un asunto comunitario? Is safety in relation to scaffolding really a matter for the EU, however?
  No puede ser que los trabajadores de andamios jueguen a Tarzán en sus centros de trabajo. We cannot have those who work on scaffolding playing Tarzan out on the work sites.
  En la mayor parte de los casos, esos accidentes se deben a una utilización incorrecta de los andamios y las escaleras. In most cases, these accidents are caused by the improper use of scaffolding and ladders.
• cadalso
• horca
• patíbulo
  – Señor Presidente, a veces la democracia parlamentaria europea avanza erigiendo un patíbulo y enviando un rey a la guillotina. Mr President, sometimes European parliamentary democracy makes progress by putting up a scaffold and sending a king to the guillotine.
  Recientemente, al final de la campaña electoral europea de Ataka, se mostró una pancarta con el siguiente texto: ¡Baleva al patíbulo; echemos a la hoguera a los judíos alemanes! More recently, at the end of Ataka's European election campaign, a billboard displayed a banner stating: 'Baleva on the scaffold - the German Jew tied to the stake!'

Definition of scaffold

• A structure made of scaffolding for workers to stand on while working on a building
• An elevated platform on which a criminal is executed
• An elevated platform on which dead bodies are ritually disposed of, as by some Native American tribes
• A structure that provides support for some other material
• To set up a scaffolding; to surround a building with scaffolding
• To dispose of the bodies of the dead on a scaffold or raised platform, as by some Native American tribes

Related words

• scaffolding
• scaffolder
• scaffoldings
• scaffold protein
• scaffolding tower
• scaffolding branch
• gantry scaffold
• bracket scaffold
• projecting scaffold