different between wainscotting vs wainscot

English

Alternative forms

• wainscoting

Etymology

wainscot +? -ing. Attested since at least the 17th century.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?we?nsk?t??/

Noun

wainscotting (usually uncountable, plural wainscottings)

1. Wooden (especially oaken) panelling on the lower part of a room’s walls.
   • 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep

     The giggles got louder and ran around the corners of the room like rats behind the wainscotting.

Synonyms

• wainscot (countable)

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Verb

wainscotting

1. present participle of wainscot

English

Etymology

From Middle English waynscot, from Middle Low German wagenschot, assumed to be from wagen (“wagon”) + schot, believed to mean “partition”.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?we?nsk?t/

Noun

wainscot (plural wainscots)

1. (architecture) An area of wooden (especially oaken) panelling on the lower part of a room’s walls.
2. Any of various noctuid moths.

Synonyms

• panelling (uncountable)

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Verb

wainscot (third-person singular simple present wainscots, present participle wainscotting, simple past and past participle wainscotted)

1. To decorate a wall with a wainscot.

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