Possible Clues:

• Wainscots (Var.)
• Cuts grooves into a pedestal
• Your old man turns over the sod at the bottoms of the walls
• Father turns the sod at the bottom of the walls inside
• Borders along the lower part of a wall
• Carpenters' grooves
• Column features
• Grooves in boards
• Thus old man's put up wall sections
• Cuts a groove into