thonder

thonder
I
North Country (Newcastle) Words
there, yonder thrang - to press, to thrust, to squeeze; n a crowd, a throng; adj crowded, much engaged, busily employed
II
Mid Ulster English
there, something distant but within sight
From Scots, originally "yonder" in archaic English.

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