bevel siding

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noun Carpentry.

siding composed of tapered pieces, as clapboards, laid with the thicker lower edge of any piece overlapping the thinner upper edge of the piece below it.

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Siding with Obama on anything, no matter how sensical, is a risky move for a would-be Republican presidential candidate.
The Rand-Rubio Catfight Over Cuba|Olivia Nuzzi|December 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
As the rebels departed, they blew up an 81-car munitions train stranded on a siding.
Atlanta’s Fall Foretold The End Of Civil War Bloodshed|Marc Wortman|September 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The instrument is attached to the Anglo-Australian Telescope at the Siding Spring Observatory, northwest of Sydney, Australia.
SAMI Is Like Google Earth for the Universe|Matthew R. Francis|July 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It is hard to fathom siding with al-Qaeda in Syria, but then again, we arguably did something similar in Iraq.
A Veteran Sees Echoes of Iraq and Argues Against Intervention in Syria|Brian Van Reet|September 9, 2013|DAILY BEAST

He accused her of siding with “Denver Democrats” to “make energy rates higher in rural areas.”
A Battle Over Gun Control in Colorado|Ben Jacobs|September 2, 2013|DAILY BEAST
And they'd have to get definite word about the extension of a railroad siding for the lading purposes, too.
Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942|Various
Before you could count ten they had made a flying switch with the single car, kicking it in on the siding.
The Wreckers|Francis Lynde
That siding isn't in any such shape that the Fast Mail could get by without seeing a 'meet' train on the side-track, is it?
The Wreckers|Francis Lynde
That siding is part of an old 'Y' at the mouth of a gulch that runs back into the mountains for maybe a dozen miles or so.
The Wreckers|Francis Lynde
Even you are siding with grandmother and suspecting me of breaking my word.
Quin|Alice Hegan Rice

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