A board or plank used as a temporary footbridge between a ship and a dockside or any gap such as scaffolding.
The boards ending the hammock-nettings at either side of the entrance from the accommodation-ladder to the deck.
A board or plank placed within or without the bulwarks of a vessel's waist for lookouts to walk or stand on.
A structure made of scaffolding for workers to stand on while working on a building.
A structure that provides support for some other material.
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.