Wainscot

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A facing or paneling, usually of wood, applied to the walls of a room.
  • n. The lower part of an interior wall when finished in a material different from that of the upper part.
  • v. To line or panel (a room or wall) with wainscoting.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. An area of wooden (especially oaken) panelling on the lower part of a room’s walls.
  • v. To decorate a wall with a wainscot.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Oaken timber or boarding.
  • n. A wooden lining or boarding of the walls of apartments, usually made in panels.
  • n. Any one of numerous species of European moths of the family Leucanidæ.
  • v. To line with boards or panelwork, or as if with panelwork.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A fine kind of foreign oak-timber, not so liable to cast or warp as English oak, easily worked with tools, and used at first for any kind of paneled work, and afterward in other ways.
  • n. A wooden lining or boarding of the walls of apartments, usually made in panels; paneled boards on the walls of rooms. Originally this lining or paneling was made of wainscot-oak.
  • n. One of certain noctuid moths: an English collectors' name.
  • To line or panel with wainscot: as, to wainscot a hall.
  • To line or panel in the manner of wainscoting, with material other than oak, or, more generally, than wood.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest of the wall
  • n. wooden panels that can be used to line the walls of a room
    • Verb Form
    wainscoted    wainscoting    wainscots    wainscotted    wainscotting   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    panel   
    Cross Reference
    smoky wainscot   
    Form
    wainscoted    wainscoting   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    wainscoting    panelling    paneling    banister    chimney-piece   
     
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