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Definition of Scaffolding
1. Noun. A system of scaffolds.
Definition of Scaffolding
1. n. A scaffold; a supporting framework; as, the scaffolding of the body.
Definition of Scaffolding
1. Noun. A temporary modular system of tubes forming a framework used to support people and material in the construction or repair of buildings and other large structures. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Scaffolding
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scaffolding
Literary usage of Scaffolding
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1922)
"We may refer to our own observation of the first forms of scaffolding. ...
Then there came another form of scaffolding, which was a suspended wire platform ..."
2. The Weekly Reporter by Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords, Great Britain Privy Council (1905)
"PAWLEY. said: " I think it is made out to my satisfaction that the building was
being constructed by means of a scaffolding. ..."
3. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1893)
"It was the duty of the defendant to use ordinary care to furnish for the use of
the plaintiff and his fellow-workmen a scaffolding that was reasonably safe ..."
4. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1908)
"An Early Instance of Blowing-In Without " scaffolding- Down. ... I have never
read any statement as to when and by whom " scaffolding" was first dispensed ..."
5. Annual ReportLabor laws and legislation (1902)
"scaffolding for use of employees.—A. person employing or directing another to
... scaffolding or staging swung or suspended from an overhead support, ..."
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