gangboard vs scaffold

gangboard

noun
  • 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. 

scaffold

noun
  • 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. 

verb
  • 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. 

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