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wainscot

noun

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈweɪnskɒt/ / /ˈwɛnskət/ / /ˈweɪnskət/

noun

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”).

  1. 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.

  2. Any of various noctuid moths.

verb

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”).

  1. To decorate a wall with a wainscot.