Siding
['saɪdɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) a short stretch of railroad track used to store rolling stock or enable trains on the same line to pass.
(noun.) material applied to the outside of a building to make it weatherproof.
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Definition
(p. pr.& vb. n.) of Side
(n.) Attaching one's self to a party.
(n.) A side track, as a railroad; a turnout.
(n.) The covering of the outside wall of a frame house, whether made of weatherboards, vertical boarding with cleats, shingles, or the like.
(n.) 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.
Checker: Mortimer
Examples
- For siding, sheathing, sub-flooring, shingles, window casings and frames, redwood is much used, because of its resistance to decay, both from contact with moisture or dry rot. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Over this paper place any kind of boards that the fancy of the builder may dictate, as clapboards, shiplap, or drop-siding. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- We have never seen ice better preserved through a long and hot summer than in a board shanty with only one thickness of siding, and that full of cracks and crevices. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- The first engine, with the carriage containing the Duke of Wellington, had been stopped on a siding so that the Duke might review the other trains. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- This road also had some features of conventional railroads, such as sidings, turn-tables, freight platform, and car-house. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The Southern Pacific Company today has in service in some of its sidings redwood ties that were put down under its rails fifty-five years ago. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- At the end of the year 1898 there were in use in the United States 36,746 locomotives, 1,318,700 cars, and the mileage in tracks, including second track and sidings, was 245,238. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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