The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word SIDING
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More clues leading to the result SIDING
- Track I'd sing out of tune
- Policeman intercepts evil gang leader on railway track
- Bit of track is up on toll?
- Carol, girl being protected in a dead-end location?
- Small branch I had found in grass
- Backing for railway track
- I would make notes about short track
- Tracks I’d found in grass
- Student escapes stealing a short track
- Moving smoothly, new driver exits railway track used for shunting
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The straight part
We know that "railway track used for shunting" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case railway track used for shunting = siding.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does SIDING mean?
SIDING noun- A building material which covers and protects the sides of a house or other building.
- To ally oneself, be in an alliance, usually with "with" or rarely "in with"
- To lean on one side.
- To be or stand at the side of; to be on the side toward.
- To suit; to pair; to match.
- To work (a timber or rib) to a certain thickness by trimming the sides.
- To furnish with a siding.
- To provide with, as a side or accompaniment.
- To clear, tidy or sort.
- 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 loading or unloading freight, storing trains or other rail vehicles; or to allow two trains on a same track to meet (opposite directions) or pass (same direction) (the latter sense is probably an American definition).