Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • A dialectal form of yonder.

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Examples

  • One's 'bout stacked up on the sand, yender, and t'other'll be waitin 'fur yer orders purty soon.

    Culm Rock The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught Glance Gaylord

  • "I got a rifle-gun yender, what I kain't noways do without."

    Heart of the Blue Ridge Waldron Baily

  • They knew that they did not belong on the same Platform with One who had been up yender in Chicago for goin 'on Twelve weeks finding out how to be a Business Man.

    Fables in Slang George Ade 1905

  • Cow, a Bird Dog of dubious Ancestry, an Axe and a Skillet, and started them over the Divide toward the perilous Frontier, away out yender in

    Ade's Fables George Ade 1905

  • Muley Cow, a Bird Dog of dubious Ancestry, an Axe and a Skillet, and started them over the Divide toward the perilous Frontier, away out yender in Illinoy.

    Ade's Fables George Ade 1905

  • We're the Lord's chosen, and over yender is a generation of vipers warned to flee from the wrath to come.

    The Lions of the Lord A Tale of the Old West Harry Leon Wilson 1903

  • But it's a long ways over yender, and while I ain't ever had any revelations myself, I'm pretty sure the Lord means to have me toler'bly well fed, and my back kept bone-dry on the way.

    The Lions of the Lord A Tale of the Old West Harry Leon Wilson 1903

  • But that blasted, grinnin 'effijiggy there stands for that rotten old punk-heap that's jest gone to pieces out yender, and it's the only thing I've got to get back on.

    The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul Holman Day 1900

  • "Both of 'em hurried up the hill over yender, an 'that's the last I seen of 'em," concluded the lad.

    The Daughter of Anderson Crow George Barr McCutcheon 1897

  • Now, at least, he should be able to look his seafaring grandfather and his roving uncle in the face, if so be he should happen to meet them "over yender."

    "Some Say" Neighbours in Cyrus Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896

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