Wainscot

['weɪnskət;-kɒt] or ['wenskət]

Definition

(noun.) wooden panels that can be used to line the walls of a room.

(noun.) panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest of the wall.

Checker: Melanie--From WordNet

Definition

(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 Leucanidae.

(v. t.) To line with boards or panelwork, or as if with panelwork; as, to wainscot a hall.

Checker: Nathan

Definition

n. the panelled boards on the walls of apartments: a collector's name for certain noctuoid moths.—v.t. to line with or as if with boards or panels.—ns. Wain′scoting Wain′scotting the act of lining with boards or panels: materials for making a wainscot.

Typed by Gwendolyn