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Wainscot

//ˈweɪnskɒt// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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."

  2. 2
    wooden panels that can be used to line the walls of a room wordnet
  3. 3
    Any of various noctuid moths.
  4. 4
    panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest of the wall wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To decorate a wall with a wainscot.

Etymology

Etymology 1

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”).

Etymology 2

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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