Usually means: Wood paneling on lower walls.
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  1. wainscot: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. wainscot: Merriam-Webster
  3. wainscot: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. wainscot: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. wainscot: Collins English Dictionary
  6. wainscot: Vocabulary.com
  7. Wainscot, wainscot: Wordnik
  8. wainscot: Wiktionary
  9. wainscot: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. wainscot: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. wainscot: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. wainscot: Dictionary.com
  13. wainscot: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Wainscot (disambiguation), Wainscot (fiction), Wainscot: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Wainscot: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. wainscot: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. wainscot: Rhymezone
  18. Wainscot: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. wainscot: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. wainscot: FreeDictionary.org
  21. wainscot: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. wainscot: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Wainscot: The Word Detective
  24. wainscot: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. wainscot: Encyclopedia

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Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wainscot: A Word A Day

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  1. Book Binding (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (architecture) An area of wooden (especially oaken) panelling on the lower part of a room’s walls.
noun:  Any of various noctuid moths.
verb:  To decorate a wall with a wainscot.

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