wainscot
Collocations
2VERB + WAINSCOT
join
ADV.
then
Definitions
noun
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.
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.
Any of various noctuid moths.
verb
To decorate a wall with a wainscot.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
noun — wooden panels that can be used to line the walls of a room
- wainscoting
- wainscotting
noun — panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is
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Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
2[…] 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.
WiktionaryEntering 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.
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