Word Meanings - WAINSCOT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A wooden lining or boarding of the walls of apartments, usually made in panels. (more info) fr. OD. waeg, weeg, a wall + schot 1. Oaken timber or boarding. A wedge wainscot is fittest and most proper for cleaving of an oaken tree. Urquhart.

Additional info about word: WAINSCOT

A wooden lining or boarding of the walls of apartments, usually made in panels. (more info) fr. OD. waeg, weeg, a wall + schot 1. Oaken timber or boarding. A wedge wainscot is fittest and most proper for cleaving of an oaken tree. Urquhart. Inclosed in a chest of wainscot. J. Dart.

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