Staging

·noun A structure of posts and boards for supporting workmen, ·etc., as in building.

II. Staging ·noun The business of running stagecoaches; also, the act of journeying in stagecoaches.

staging
Scaffolding. Used in New England, and I believe in other parts of the United States.--Pickering. ...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.