Usually means: Support structures for building, construction.
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We found 12 dictionaries that define the word scaffolds:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. scaffolds: Merriam-Webster
  2. scaffolds: Collins English Dictionary
  3. scaffolds: Vocabulary.com
  4. Scaffolds, scaffold's, scaffolds: Wordnik
  5. scaffolds: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. scaffolds: Wiktionary
  7. scaffolds: Dictionary.com
  8. scaffolds: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Scaffolds: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. scaffolds: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scaffolds: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scaffolds: Medical dictionary

(Note: See scaffold as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (scaffold)

noun:  A structure made of scaffolding for workers to stand on while working on a building.
noun:  An elevated platform on which a criminal is executed.
noun:  An elevated platform on which dead bodies are ritually disposed of, as by some Native American tribes.
noun:  (metalworking) An accumulation of adherent, partly fused material forming a shelf or dome-shaped obstruction above the tuyeres in a blast furnace.
noun:  (sciences) A structure that provides support for some other material.
verb:  (transitive) To set up a scaffolding; to surround a building with scaffolding.
verb:  (transitive) To sustain; to provide support for.
verb:  (transitive) To dispose of the bodies of the dead on a scaffold or raised platform, as by some Native American tribes.
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