go to the scaffold

English

Verb

go to the scaffold (third-person singular simple present goes to the scaffold, present participle going to the scaffold, simple past went to the scaffold, past participle gone to the scaffold)

  1. (idiomatic) To be executed (usually by hanging or beheading).
    • 1998, Nigel Kelly, Rosemary Rees, Jane Shuter, Britain 1750-1900, page 83:
      More and more people went to the scaffold as the Terror tightened its grip.
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