Meanings
verbgo 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)
present singular third person goes to the scaffold · participle present going to the scaffold · past went to the scaffold · participle past gone to the scaffold
- idiomaticTo be executed (usually by hanging or beheading).
More and more people went to the scaffold as the Terror tightened its grip.
1998, Nigel Kelly, Rosemary Rees, Jane Shuter, Britain 1750-1900, page 83
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