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Siding

noun

A short stretch of railroad track used to store rolling stock or enable trains on the same line to pass. Synonyms: railroad siding, sidetrack, turnout.

Material applied to the outside of a building to make it weatherproof.

Side

verb

(past & past part. sided; pres. part. siding)

Take sides for or against. "I'm siding against the current candidate"

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... where one or two hogsheads were standing and several cases. But there was no sign of life or habitation. It was evidently the freight station for some town not far distant, for a couple of old-fashioned box-cars stood on a siding, and Pee-wee contemplated them with the joy ...

— Tom Slade at Temple Camp • Percy K. Fitzhugh

... now broke out in a storm of vociferation; some siding with Zuma; others with Varnopi; each of whom, in turn, was declared the man to be ...

— Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2) • Herman Melville

... There were my saddle-blankets—rather wet; or Lin McLean might ride in to-night on his way to Riverside; or perhaps down at the corrals I could find some other acquaintance whose habit of washing I trusted and whose bed I might share. Failing these expedients, several empties stood idle upon a siding, and the box-like darkness of these freight-cars was timely. Nights were short now. Camping out, the dawn by three o'clock would flow like silver through the universe, and, sinking through my blankets, remorselessly pervade my ...

— Lin McLean • Owen Wister

... he said. "Allow me to compliment you on your tact! Ninety-nine women out of a hundred would have taken the obvious course of siding with their own sex against the oppressor. Why didn't ...

— The Obstacle Race • Ethel M. Dell

... the giants Alabaster and Passamont to recompense the monks for their hospitality. The abbey took its name from a child (the son of a Count of Barcelona) who led a hermit's life, and is accredited with having performed several miracles in the neighbourhood. About the year 1100 the Pope, siding with the people of the valley of Aspe in a quarrel between them and the Abbot of St. Savin, issued a bull forbidding the women of Lavedan to conceive for a period of seven years. The animals, moreover, were not to bring forth young, and the trees were not to bear fruit for ...

— The Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. I. (of V.) • Margaret, Queen Of Navarre

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