siding

Material, such as boards or shingles, used for surfacing the outside walls of a frame building.

A short section of railroad track connected by switches with a main track.

The act. of taking sides; the attaching of one’s self to a party; division into sides or parties.

On railroads, a short additional track placed at the side of a main line, and connected at one or both ends with the main lines of rails by means of Switches or points.

The covering or boarding of the sides of a frame building, or the material used for that purpose, as weather-boards, or boards or shingles otherwise prepared.

The dressing of timbers to their correct breadth, as in shipbuilding; also, the timbers so dressed.

Attaching one’s self to a party.

A side track, as a railroad; a turnout.

The covering of the outside wall of a frame house, whether made of weatherboards, vertical boarding with cleats, shingles, or the like.

The thickness of a rib or timber, measured, at right angles with its side, across the curved edge.