| Walnut | A hard cabinet wood, chocolate brown in color. It is tough, dense, durable, and very strong in comparison to its weight. It is used to make furniture of the highest quality. |
| Warp | Curved as opposed to being flat; bent out of shape. |
| Wash Coat | A greatly watered down sealer or surface coating, diluted with a thinning agent. The purpose of using a wash coat is usuallv to hold down stain or coloring matter and prevent it from bleeding through into subsequent finish coats. |
| Water Stain | Made by mixing dry powders with water. They come in a variety of colors and are inexpensive but tend to raise the grain, especially when brushed on. |
| Webbed Foot | A foot used in the Queen Anne style on the bottom of cabriole legs. It has three toes with simulated webbs carved in the grooves separating the toes. |
| Webbing | A tough banding made, of jute fiber used to support coil springs in upholstered furniture. |
| Webbing Stretcher | A short piece of wood about 3 inches wide and 6 inches long, into one end of which nails with pointed ends have been driven. The pointed ends of the nails are hooked into the webbing and, when used as a lever with the opposite end placed against the seat frame, it can be made to stretch the webbing prior to tacking it to the frame. |
| Wind | The warping of a board on an angle from corner to opposite corner. |
| Windsor Chair | A light chair composed of slender turned spindles. |
| Wing Chair | An upholstered armchair with wings on each side. These were originally intended to ward off drafts of cold air. |
| Wire Edge | The turned up, paper-thin edge of a plane blade, turned up as a result of whetting it on the oilstone. |
| Wrought Iron | The iron from which early American hardware was made. It is a malleable iron, easily worked on the forge. |
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