wainscot

A facing or paneling, usually of wood, applied to the walls of a room.

The lower part of an interior wall when finished in a material different from that of the upper part.

To line or panel (a room or wall) with wainscoting.

To line or panel with wainscot: as, to wainscot a hall.

To line or panel in the manner of wainscoting, with material other than oak, or, more generally, than wood.

A fine kind of foreign oak-timber, not so liable to cast or warp as English oak, easily worked with tools, and used at first for any kind of paneled work, and afterward in other ways.

A wooden lining or boarding of the walls of apartments, usually made in panels; paneled boards on the walls of rooms. Originally this lining or paneling was made of wainscot-oak.

One of certain noctuid moths: an English collectors’ name.

To line with boards or panelwork, or as if with panelwork.

Oaken timber or boarding.