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A short stretch of railroad track used to store rolling stock or enable trains on the same line to pass
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siding
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Siding is the outer covering or cladding of a house meant to shed water and protect from the effects of weather. Siding may also refer to: Siding (rail) , a track section fr:Parement
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Side \Side\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sided ; p. pr. & vb. n. Siding .] To lean on one side. [Obs.] --Bacon. 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. ...
Usage examples of siding.
Two offers to install siding on his house, Ray Bisse said to call, and Kathi wished him a Merry Christmas.
By siding first with one and then the other, Brail had managed to keep House Orvinti from becoming entangled in the dispute between Solkara and Bistari.
It had been sacked once by Northern troops, destroyed again by retreating Confederates, then hastily rebuilt by Northern contractors, so that now there were acres of gaunt, raw-timbered warehouses standing between rail sidings and weed-filled meadows that were crammed with guns and limbers and caissons and portable forges and ambulances and wagons.
The engine had taken the siding instead, mowing down the switchman who stood in its path.
Instead of individual switched sidings, the architect who laid out the tramway on realside used these two fifty-meter tails of trackway to store empties.
Theirs had been uncoupled from the main body of the train, and released into what he could only assume was a siding.
They had come there first twenty years earlier, this lovely spot where a sixteenth-century diplomat from Naples, Bernardo di Maggiore, was ambushed by Aragonese sympathizers and accused of siding against them in a conflict with the pope.
Naples, Bernardo di Maggiore, was ambushed by Aragonese sympathizers and accused of siding against them in a conflict with the pope.
There being no sidings at Lake Louise, the abbreviated train that had brought us there had been returned to Banff for the two mountain days, with George Burley going with it, in charge.
Without the support of the King or the people, with American Marines and aircraft openly siding with the loyalists, with the Jefferson, her consorts, and her air wing on station between Bangkok and Sattahip, the rebellion had collapsed as quickly as it had begun.
Ekdokhan has past occurrences of siding with ometvaheem from poorer families, especially minimizing past behavioral problems so those ometvaheem may marry.
All exactly what you would expect weeds, salt-streaked alloy siding, blistered paint, old carnie holograms with no memory of themselves as human, which, faded but energetic, woke into life as you passed, pursuing, hectoring, cajoling.
The dogs were loaded into the baggage cars in their crates and the train left the siding at 6 P.
Pope Julius, strong again, turned against Gonfaloniere Soderini, put an interdict on the Republic of Florence for not siding with him, for not providing troops and money when he had been in trouble, for giving refuge to enemy troops, for not crushing the Council at Pisa.
The Umbeyla Expedition of 1863 under Sir Neville Chamberlain was occasioned by the Bunerwals siding with the Hindostani Fanatics, who had settled down at Malka in their territory.