Illustrated Architecture Dictionary

Wainscot(ing, ting)
wayne skut, - skoat

A decorative or protective facing, such as wood paneling

From the early Dutch/German meaning - literally - cut down/prepared/handled timber rather than standing/growing timber

This term originally seems to have implied rough planks of oak timber, and subsequently to have been given to wooden paneling

Very extensively employed during the reigns of Queen Elizabeth and James I, and for a long period afterwards. The name has long- ceased to be confined to oak paneling

In Colonial America, the term referred to the sheathing applied over an entire interior wall surface in either a horizontal or vertical orientation

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Examples from Buffalo architecture:

• Illustration above: Harlow C. Curtiss House / International Institute
  
  
• 121 Chapin Parkway
  
  
• 232 Crescent Avenue
  
  
• Charles F. Sternberg House / The Mansion on Delaware Avenue
  
  
• Engine #15 Fire Station
  
  
• Robert B. Adam House
  
  
• Saturn Club
  
  
• 305 Elmwood Avenue
  
  
• North Park Theatre

Other examples:

• Fontainebleau Palace, France