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Siding   /sˈaɪdɪŋ/   Listen
noun
Siding  n.  
1.
Attaching one's self to a party.
2.
A side track, as a railroad; a turnout.
3.
(Carp.) The covering of the outside wall of a frame house, whether made of weatherboards, vertical boarding with cleats, shingles, or the like.
4.
(Shipbuilding) The thickness of a rib or timber, measured, at right angles with its side, across the curved edge; as, a timber having a siding of ten inches.


verb
Side  v. t.  
1.
To be or stand at the side of; to be on the side toward. (Obs.) "His blind eye that sided Paridell."
2.
To suit; to pair; to match. (Obs.)
3.
(Shipbuilding) To work (a timber or rib) to a certain thickness by trimming the sides.
4.
To furnish with a siding; as, to side a house.


Side  v. i.  (past & past part. sided; pres. part. siding)  
1.
To lean on one side. (Obs.)
2.
To embrace the opinions of one party, or engage in its interest, in opposition to another party; to take sides; as, to side with the ministerial party. "All side in parties, and begin the attack."





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"Siding" Quotes from Famous Books



... they would have evolved their Sleeping Beauty and their Prince Charming, their enchanted castles, and their Djinns and fairies. These are as indigenous to the human heart as the cradle-song or the battle-cry. We do not find ourselves siding with those who would trace everything to a first exemplar. Children have played, and men have loved, and poets have sung from the beginning, and we need not run to Asia for the source of everything. Universal human nature has a ...
— Malayan Literature • Various Authors
... feel a much more lively interest three weeks later. As soon as the railway officials could put the trains in motion we resumed our journey. Reilly's brigade gets to Spring Hill, half-way to Columbia, but the insufficiency of siding at that place makes it impracticable to handle all the trains there, and the rest of us are stopped at Thompson's Station, three miles short. We leave the cars and go into camp so as to release the trains for other work, whilst we organize again for field operations, ...
— Military Reminiscences of the Civil War V2 • Jacob Dolson Cox
... has! Stop her! Back her! Hold on, Frank!" cried Gus, as Joe, only catching the words "Open that!" obeyed, without the least idea that they would dare to leave the siding. ...
— Jack and Jill • Louisa May Alcott
... siding wondering what he was for and what he was to do. Suddenly he heard another car come bumping and screeching down the track. Before the new car could think what was happening,—bang!—the battered old car went ...
— Here and Now Story Book - Two- to seven-year-olds • Lucy Sprague Mitchell
... o'clock train that night, and travelling through the midnight to the highest point of the mountains, and into the early dawn down, down the Great Zigzag on the other side, till he came out on the plain to a little siding, where he scrambled out with his bundle, and shouldered it briskly, and trudged along eight miles, perhaps, to a wretched selection where his father, for his mother and six or seven children younger than Larkin, fought the losing fight of the Man on the Land. A few hours here, slipping ...
— In the Mist of the Mountains • Ethel Turner


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