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siding (iou) and porpoise (iou)


siding (iou)



siding noun. LME.
[from SIDE verb + -ING1.]
I. The action or an act of SIDE verb.
The provision or replacement of the sides of something. Only in LME.
The action or an act of taking sides in a conflict, dispute, or debate; party spirit, partisanship, factiousness. Also, a faction. E17.
The action of moving or turning sideways. M17.
The action of siding timber. N. Amer. L19.
II. An object.
a. A side of something. Only in E17.
b. Cladding for the outside of a building; (a piece of) weatherboarding. Chiefly N. Amer. E19.
c. = SIDELING noun 2. Austral. & NZ. L19.
Nautical. The breadth of a deck beam of a ship. L18.
a. A short length of railway track connected to an adjacent through line (often at one end only) for storing and shunting rolling-stock and for enabling trains on the same line to pass each Other; a similar line on a tramway. E19.
b. A passing-place in a canal. M19.

porpoise (iou)



porpoise noun & verb. ME.
[Old French po(u)rpois, -peis, -pais from Proto-Romance comb. of Latin porcus pig & piscis fish, for Latin porcus marinus lit. 'sea-hog'.]
A. noun.
Any of various small delphinoid whales of the family Phocaenidae, with a blunt rounded snout and usu. low triangular dorsal fin. ME.
A sharp dive by an aircraft or submarine. E20.
b. verb intrans. Move like a porpoise; spec. (a) (of an aircraft, esp. a seaplane) touch the water or ground and rise again; (b) (of a submarine etc.) alternately rise to the surface of the water and submerge. E20.