The canopy over an altar, etc.
A raised platform in a room for a high table, a seat of honour, a throne, or other dignified occupancy, such as ancestral statues; a similar platform supporting a lectern, pulpit, etc., which may be used to speak from.
A bench, a settle, a pew.
A structure that provides support for some other material.
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 accumulation of adherent, partly fused material forming a shelf or dome-shaped obstruction above the tuyeres in a blast furnace.
An elevated platform on which dead bodies are ritually disposed of, as by some Native American tribes.
To sustain; to provide support for.
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.