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Encyclopedia Britannica



WAINSCOT

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 246 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: VIR-WAT
WAINSCOT , properly a superior quality of oak, used for fine panel
work
 , hence such panel-
work
  as used for the lining or covering of the interior walls of an apartment. The word appears to be Dutch and came into use in English in the 16th century, and occurs in lists of imported timber. The Dutch word wagenschot, adapted in English as waynskott, weynskott (Hakluyt, Voyages, i. 173, has " boords called waghenscot "), was applied to the best kind of oak, well-grained, not liable to warp and free frcm knots. The form shows that it was, in popular etymology, formed from wagen (i.e. wain, wagon) and schot, a term which has a large number of meanings, such as shot, cast,
partition
 , an enclosure of boards, cf. " sheet," and was applied to the fine
wood
  panelling used in coach-building. This is, however, doubted, and relations have been suggested with Dutch weeg,
wall
 , cognate with 0. Eng. wah,
wall
 , or with M. Dutch waeghe, Ger. Wage, wave, the reference being to the grain of the
wood
  when cut. The term " wainscot " is sometimes wrongly applied to a " dado," the lining, whether of
paper
 , paint or wooden panelling, of the lower portion of the walls of a room. A " dado " (Ital. dada, die,
cube
 ; Lat. datum, something given, a die for casting lots; cf. O. Fr. del, mod. de, Eng. " die ") meant originally the plane-faced
cube
  on the base of a pedestal between the mouldings of the baseand the cornice, hence the flat surface between the plinth and the capping of the wooden lining of the lower part of a wall, representing a continuous pedestal.


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