(wainscot)
1Wainscot — 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]… …
2Wainscot — 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… …
3wainscot — [wān′skät΄, wān′skət] n. [ME waynescote < MDu wagenschot, wainscot, as if < wagen (see WAIN), but prob. < base akin to OS weg, OE wag, wall, orig. woven work (< IE base * wei > WITHE) + schot, a board, pale, prob. < or akin to… …
4wainscot — (n.) mid 14c., imported oak of superior quality, probably from M.Du. or M.Flem. waghenscote superior quality oak wood, board used for paneling (though neither of these is attested as early as the English word), related to M.L.G. wagenschot (late… …
5wainscot — meaning ‘panelling on the lower part of a wall near the floor’, has derivative forms wainscoted, wainscoting (one t in each) …
6wainscot — ► NOUN ▪ an area of wooden panelling on the lower part of the walls of a room. ► VERB (wainscoted, wainscoting or wainscotted, wainscotting) ▪ line (a room or wall) with wooden panelling. DERIVATIVES wainscoting (also …
7wainscot — /wayn skeuht, skot, skoht/, n., v., wainscoted, wainscoting or (esp. Brit.) wainscotted, wainscotting. n. 1. wood, esp. oak and usually in the form of paneling, for lining interior walls. 2. the lining itself, esp. as covering the lower portion… …
8wainscot — 1. noun /ˈweɪnskɒt/ 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.… …
9Wainscot — This very unusual name derives from the Olde German, Wagenshot and is a job descriptive metonymic for a maker of high quality panel work and skirting boards. The word is first recorded in England in 1548, whilst Samuel Pepys Diary for September… …
10wainscot — [14] Wainscot was borrowed from Middle Low German wagenschot. It is not altogether clear what the origins of this were, but the generally accepted theory is that it is a compound of wagen ‘waggon’ and schot ‘planks, boards’, and that it therefore …