Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A spectator in the gallery of a theater; one of the “gods.”
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a person who
erects anddismantles scaffolding
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Examples
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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
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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
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(IG illustrates the latter in his book with an anecdote about a scaffolder)
Replace Police With Spin Doctors « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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He left school at 14, worked as a labourer, scaffolder and evetually a gardener.
Poetry, Prayer, and Praise Veritas 2007
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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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