wainscot
/ˈweɪnskɒt/
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obsolete/ˈwɛnskət/
wainscot noun: an area of wooden (especially oaken) panelling on the lower part of a room’s walls.
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Noun
wainscot (plural wainscots)
- 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.1598, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, act 3, scene 3
- 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.1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 3, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 11
- Any of various noctuid moths.
Verb
wainscot (third-person singular simple present wainscots, present participle wainscoting or wainscotting, simple past and past participle wainscoted or wainscotted)
- To decorate a wall with a wainscot.
wainscot meaning in Tamil, Tagalog and Arabic
wainscot in Tamil
- பலகை முகச் சுவர்
wainscot in Tagalog
- an area of wooden panelling on the lower part of a room's walls
- arimadilyo
wainscot in Arabic
- to decorate a wall with a wainscot
- خَشَّبَ ḵaššaba
Synonyms of wainscot
Forms of wainscot
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | wainscots |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | wainscots |
| present participle | wainscoting |
| present participle | wainscotting |
| past participle | wainscoted |
| past | wainscoted |
| past participle | wainscotted |
| past | wainscotted |
Origin of wainscot
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”).
Words formed from wainscot
Phrases with wainscot
Questions about wainscot
- What does wainscot mean?
- Wainscot means an area of wooden (especially oaken) panelling on the lower part of a room’s walls.
- What is wainscot in Tamil?
- Wainscot in Tamil is பலகை முகச் சுவர். See Wainscot meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is wainscot?
- Wainscot can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce wainscot?
- Wainscot is pronounced /ˈweɪnskɒt/ (UK).
- What is the plural of wainscot?
- The plural of wainscot is wainscots.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: wainscot (page history and authors); wainscot (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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