Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A spectator in the gallery of a theater; one of the “gods.”

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  • noun a person who erects and dismantles scaffolding

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Examples

  • These researchers usually do not collect data or describe, even as a possibility, the learner as someone who sometimes acts as a constructive and efficient independent inventor and builder of his own knowledge, without the help of the "scaffolder" adult.

    Piaget and Vygotsky Bill Kerr 2006

  • These researchers usually do not collect data or describe, even as a possibility, the learner as someone who sometimes acts as a constructive and efficient independent inventor and builder of his own knowledge, without the help of the "scaffolder" adult.

    Archive 2006-07-01 Bill Kerr 2006

  • (IG illustrates the latter in his book with an anecdote about a scaffolder)

    Replace Police With Spin Doctors « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

  • Darren the scaffolder doubtless just wanted to look more youthful – that's a whole other discussion – but it's distressing that in an economy as grim as ours, a man should feel the need to hide the signs of honest toil, trading his weatherbeaten appearance for a face that suggests a life lived more luxuriously.

    Let's face it, chaps, facelifts just don't suit you | Hephzibah Anderson 2011

  • It's being pushed as a unisex product and one news report carried an interview with a former scaffolder named Darren, who raved about how 20 years of outdoor work had been erased from his features.

    Let's face it, chaps, facelifts just don't suit you | Hephzibah Anderson 2011

  • Her partner, also called Ashley, used to do some work as a scaffolder, but since being given an asbo has found it hard to get work.

    Britain's not working Amelia Gentleman 2010

  • I once dealt with a scaffolder who was earning £300 a day on a site in Ruraltown.

    Hang On A Minute…….. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008

  • Mr Kirk, a former scaffolder and roofer, got a mark of 60 per cent - the pass rate was 70.

    Archive 2008-05-01 FIDO The Dog 2008

  • He left school at 14, worked as a labourer, scaffolder and evetually a gardener.

    Poetry, Prayer, and Praise Veritas 2007

  • One day she would run off with some layabout scaffolder, and Cyprianus would be heartbroken.

    A Body In The Bath House Davis, Lindsey 2001

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