A building material which covers and protects the sides of a house or other building (called cladding in the UK).Ugh. If there's one thing I can't stand it's cheesy vinyl siding.
(rail transport) A second, relatively short length of track just to the side of a railroad track, joined to the main track by switches at one or both ends, used either for unloading freight, or to allow two trains on a same track to meet (opposite directions) or pass (same direction).
1919, William Somerset Maugham, ,They slept where they could, sometimes in an empty truck on a siding near the station, sometimes in a cart behind a warehouse; ...
