Definition of "wainscot"

wainscot

/ˈweɪnskɒt/

noun
plural wainscots
1. (architecture) An area of wooden (especially oaken) panelling on the lower part of a room’s walls.
  Quotations
  […] 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, page 11
2. Any of various noctuid moths.
verb
third-person singular simple present wainscots, present participle wainscotting, simple past and past participle wainscotted
1. To decorate a wall with a wainscot.