wainscot

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈweɪnskɒt/
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• obsolete: /ˈwɛnskət/
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• obsolete: /ˈweɪnskət/
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• CMU ARPABET: W EY1 N S K AH0 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English waynscot, from Middle Low German wagenschot or Middle Dutch waghenscote, assumed to be from wagen (“wagon”) (from Old Saxon wagan) + schot, meaning “partition, crossbar," which is from or related to skiotan (“to shoot”).

18 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Old Armenian: տախտակամած (taxtakamac) — an area of wooden panelling on the lower part of a room's walls
• Bulgarian: ламперия (lamperija) — an area of wooden panelling on the lower part of a room's walls
• Dutch: lambrisering — an area of wooden panelling on the lower part of a room's walls
• Finnish: puolipaneeli — an area of wooden panelling on the lower part of a room's walls
• Hungarian: lambéria — an area of wooden panelling on the lower part of a room's walls
• Hungarian: faburkolat — an area of wooden panelling on the lower part of a room's walls
• Icelandic: lágþiljur — an area of wooden panelling on the lower part of a room's walls
• Icelandic: brjóstpanill — an area of wooden panelling on the lower part of a room's walls
• Irish: vuinsciú — an area of wooden panelling on the lower part of a room's walls
• Malagasy: peta-drindrina — an area of wooden panelling on the lower part of a room's walls
• Middle English: waynscot — an area of wooden panelling on the lower part of a room's walls
• Russian: пане́ль (panélʹ) — an area of wooden panelling on the lower part of a room's walls
• Spanish: arrimadero — an area of wooden panelling on the lower part of a room's walls
• Tagalog: arimadilyo — an area of wooden panelling on the lower part of a room's walls
• Ottoman Turkish: تخته (tahta) — an area of wooden panelling on the lower part of a room's walls
• Arabic: خَشَّبَ (ḵaššaba) — to decorate a wall with a wainscot
• Bulgarian: облицовам с ламперия (oblicovam s lamperija) — to decorate a wall with a wainscot
• Dutch: lambriseren — to decorate a wall with a wainscot