Wainscot: Definition and part of speech

Wainscot

  1. n. Any one of numerous species of European moths of the family Leucanidae.
  2. n. Oaken timber or boarding.
  3. n. A wooden lining or boarding of the walls of apartments, usually made in panels.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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