scaffold n Cp DAE ~ 1 (1634-). An elevated platform on which nets are placed to dry or for storage; such a platform used for the safe-keeping of fish, meat, etc.
[1782] 1792 CARTWRIGHT i, 276 I had the sealnets taken out of the dwelling-house here, stowed them on a scaffold out of doors, and covered them with seal-skins. 1876 HOWLEY MS Reminiscences 5 This is a place where in the late autumn the people of Conne River collect the deer carcasses killed in the vicinity, which they placed upon scaffolds, to freeze, and when the snow comes they haul them out the coast on sleds. 1910 GRENFELL 91 I often treat dogs, for my thoughts flew to the scaffold at the hospital on which the best part of a ton of whale meat still reposed. 1973 GOUDIE 24 I built a scaffold and put my trout up where the little animals could not get at them.
