siding

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Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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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
verb take sides for or against; ; m siding against the current candidate"

From side + -ing (“material, collection”).

Get into the clear--on the siding." — The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories, Unknown
Tweedale siding (or station), 277, 281. — History of the War in South Africa 1899-1902 v. 1 (of 4) : Compiled by Direction of His Majesty's Government, Great Britain. War Office
There's the engine coming down the siding! — The Long Roll, Mary Johnston

railroad siding, turnout, sidetrack

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