wainscot

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Scrabble points: 13
Words With Friends: 15
Letters: 8

Pronunciation

/ˈweɪnskɒt/

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/ˈweɪnskɒt/ · /ˈwɛnskət/ · /ˈweɪnskət/

Definition of wainscot

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

An area of wooden (especially oaken) panelling on the lower part of a room’s walls.

“[…] this fellow will but join you together as they join wainscot; then one of you will prove a shrunk panel, and like green timber, warp, warp.”
“Entering that gable-ended Spouter-Inn, you found yourself in a wide, low, straggling entry with old-fashioned wainscots, reminding one of the bulwarks of some condemned old craft.”

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noun

An area of wooden (especially oaken) panelling on the lower part of a room’s walls.

“[…] this fellow will but join you together as they join wainscot; then one of you will prove a shrunk panel, and like green timber, warp, warp.”
“Entering that gable-ended Spouter-Inn, you found yourself in a wide, low, straggling entry with old-fashioned wainscots, reminding one of the bulwarks of some condemned old craft.”
Any of various noctuid moths.

verb

To decorate a wall with a wainscot.

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Etymology

From Middle English waynscot, from Middle Low German wagenschot or Middle Dutch waghenscote, assumed to be from wagen (“wagon”) (from Old Saxon wagan) + schot, meaning “partition, crossbar," which is from or related to skiotan (“to shoot”).

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