wainscot en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˈwɛnskət/ (obsolete)
- /ˈweɪnskət/ (obsolete)
- /ˈweɪnskɒt/ (Received-Pronunciation)
Etymology
From Middle English waynscot, from Middle Low German wagenschot or Middle Dutch waghenscote, assumed to be from wagen (“wagon”) (from Old Saxon wagan) + schot, meaning “partition, crossbar," which is from or related to skiotan (“to shoot”).
Meanings
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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.
1598, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, act 3, scene 3:Entering that gable-ended Spouter-Inn, you found yourself in a wide, low, straggling entry with old-fashioned wainscots, reminding one of the bulwarks of some condemned old craft.
1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 3, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 11:
- Any of various noctuid moths.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| wainscots | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
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Translations (15)
enm waynscot (an area of wooden panelling on the lower part of a room's walls) · bg ламперия (an area of wooden panelling on the lower part of a room's walls) · nl lambrisering (an area of wooden panelling on the lower part of a room's walls) · ota تخته (an area of wooden panelling on the lower part of a room's walls) · xcl տախտակամած (an area of wooden panelling on the lower part of a room's walls) · tl arimadilyo (an area of wooden panelling on the lower part of a room's walls) · is brjóstpanill (an area of wooden panelling on the lower part of a room's walls) · ru пане́ль (an area of wooden panelling on the lower part of a room's walls) · ga vuinsciú (an area of wooden panelling on the lower part of a room's walls) · fi puolipaneeli (an area of wooden panelling on the lower part of a room's walls) · mg peta-drindrina (an area of wooden panelling on the lower part of a room's walls) · is lágþiljur (an area of wooden panelling on the lower part of a room's walls) · es arrimadero (an area of wooden panelling on the lower part of a room's walls) · hu faburkolat (an area of wooden panelling on the lower part of a room's walls) · hu lambéria (an area of wooden panelling on the lower part of a room's walls)