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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



... feet long if you wanted it. Some little towns didn't have no planing mills and you would have to send to Augusta or to Atlanta for the planing work or else they would make planed lumber by hand. I have worked for four and five weeks at a time dressing lumber—flooring, ceiling, siding, moldings, and ...
— Slave Narratives: Arkansas Narratives - Arkansas Narratives, Part 6 • Works Projects Administration
... stand on the sills two feet apart, form the walls. To these you nail rough boards on each side, with a layer of tar-paper in between if building a stable; if a dwelling-house, on the inside you put against your rough board, laths, and then plaster, on the outside the tar-paper and siding. ...
— A Lady's Life on a Farm in Manitoba • Mrs. Cecil Hall
... up-to-date touch to the article. She had fully decided now to write it. But Mary Stopperton could not inform her. They had ended up in the chapel of Sir Thomas More. He, too, had "given up things," including his head. Though Mary Stopperton, siding with Father Morris, was convinced he had now got it back, and that with the remainder of his bones it rested in the ...
— All Roads Lead to Calvary • Jerome K. Jerome
... have offered it to her if you did not mean her to have it," said the mother, siding with the devil in her child against the wise woman and her child too. Some foolish people think they take another's part when they take the ...
— A Double Story • George MacDonald
... for siding against the North was the abstract hatred of war, which has grown to be a very widespread and genuine feeling in England,—and, in my humble opinion, a most befitting and praiseworthy one,—active whenever we are in the position of outsiders, ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 • Various


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