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Volts. Represents the pressure or intensity of electric current ; 

 thus the same quantity of current of 400-volt strength is 

 equal to double the same quantity of 200-volt strength. 



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Wagon Scantling. A set of the large and small scantling necessary 

 for framing the whole of the woodwork of which a wagon is 

 built. 



Wainscot. A Dutch or Low Country term which has been in use 

 in England for many centuries, but now imperfectly under- 

 stood. Its original form was Wandschote (from wand, a wall, 

 and schotte, to defend or preserve). The preserving agent 

 was here wood in the form of boards (literally wall-boards). 



Wainscot Oak. Oak suitable for being wrought into wainscoting, 

 the panels being procured from riven slabs sawn into pairs, 

 the saw exposing the radial figure which, before the eight- 

 eenth century (or " the painted age ") was rated as a point 

 of beauty in the wood, as it is now for first-class fittings 

 in this hardwood. 



Wainscot Oak, Varieties Of. At the opening of this century 

 Austrian wainscot oak held the field in England, " Russian 

 oak " from Riga having declined or receded from its old 

 leading position. In the last century Odessa and American 

 white-oak wainscots were put on the English market, but are 

 not seen now. The still older- fashioned " Dutch wainscot " 

 is a thing of the past, and " English wainscot " nearly so. 

 The term " wainscot " is not yet (1921) extended to Japanese 

 oak. 



Wainscot Oak, English. It is fairly well understood that all 

 wainscot oak is foreign or imported, but occasionally we see 

 English-grown wood sawn up into planks and boards from 

 the half tree or log. It is generally believed that as late as 

 the close of Elizabeth's reign (1603) wainscot panelling and 

 oak-work was wrought in English-grown oak. 



Wainscot Oak " Billet." This is an old term for the wainscot oak 

 log, now in large measure sawn on the sole and sides, an 

 innovation in the trade during the last half century ; when 

 riven and hewn it fell into the category of the billet of wood 

 so produced from a larger body ; 1 8 cubic ft. was the stan- 

 dard contents and were marketed by the billet or piece. See 

 " English," "Dutch" and "Wrack Wainscot." 



