Eventually she began to scaffold her days.
Only happens if you climb one. In the classroom, if you're 'hanging' around, you are studying the excellent examples of your brightest classmates.
Goodness, that's what dictionaries are for. No scaffold doesn't mean kill -- though people die by falling off them fairly often. Scaffold is a structure that is built to raise people or things off the ground. It differs from a ladder in that it gives you a surface to stand on and work from, rather than just balancing on one little step. Scaffolding as a verb means to make a scaffold. Construction workers use scaffolds to work on multistory buildings.Window washers work from them to wash high windows. And that is sometimes what they call the gallows -- the platform from which they hang people by the neck. Because it ain't a hanging if the person isn't hanging from the rope. So they need to be off the ground.
