Difference between Dado and Wainscot

What is the difference between Dado and Wainscot?

Dado as a verb is to furnish with a dado. while Wainscot as a verb is decorate a wall with a wainscot.

Dado

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To furnish with a dado. To cut a dado.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The section of a pedestal above the base. The lower portion of an interior wall decorated differently from the upper portion. The rectangular channel in a board cut across the grain.

Wainscot

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An area of wooden (especially oaken) panelling on the lower part of a room's walls.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: Decorate a wall with a wainscot.

We hope you now know whether to use Dado or Wainscot in your sentence.

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