'Wainscot' definitions:
Definition of 'wainscot'
From: WordNet
noun
Panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest of the wall [syn: wainscot, dado]
noun
Wooden panels that can be used to line the walls of a room [syn: wainscot, wainscoting, wainscotting]
Definition of 'Wainscot'
From: GCIDE
- Wainscot \Wain"scot\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wainscoted; p. pr. & vb. n. Wainscoting.] To line with boards or panelwork, or as if with panelwork; as, to wainscot a hall. [1913 Webster]
- Music soundeth better in chambers wainscoted than hanged. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- The other is wainscoted with looking-glass. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Wainscot'
From: GCIDE
- Wainscot \Wain"scot\, n. [OD. waeghe-schot, D. wagen-schot, a clapboard, fr. OD. waeg, weeg, a wall (akin to AS. wah; cf. Icel. veggr) + schot a covering of boards (akin to E. shot, shoot).] [1913 Webster]
- 1. Oaken timber or boarding. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- A wedge wainscot is fittest and most proper for cleaving of an oaken tree. --Urquhart. [1913 Webster]
- Inclosed in a chest of wainscot. --J. Dart. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Arch.) A wooden lining or boarding of the walls of apartments, usually made in panels. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of European moths of the family Leucanidae. [1913 Webster]
- Note: They are reddish or yellowish, streaked or lined with black and white. Their larvae feed on grasses and sedges. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'wainscot'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- base,
- baseboard,
- basement,
- bush,
- bushing,
- ceil,
- chassis,
- dado,
- doubling,
- doublure,
- face,
- facing,
- feather,
- fill,
- filler,
- filling,
- foot,
- footing,
- foundation,
- frame,
- fur,
- inlay,
- inlayer,
- insole,
- interline,
- interlineation,
- keel,
- line,
- liner,
- lining,
- load,
- mopboard,
- nadir,
- pack,
- packing,
- pad,
- padding,
- shoemold,
- sole,
- stuff,
- stuffing,
- toe,
- wad,
- wadding