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yerding

yerding is the present participle and gerund of yerd.

Meaning of yerd

Verb (1)

yerd (third-person singular simple present yerds, present participle yerding, simple past and past participle yerded)

  1. (obsolete) To bury or be buried.
    • To owd Tim's grave this neet aw bin, An' yerd him in't mysel.1854, Elijah Ridings, The Village Muse, Containing the Complete Poetical Works of E. Ridings, page 419

Verb (2)

yerd

  1. Heard.
    • But seein this postman made me think ov a tale ut aw yerd obeawt one e Howcom.1857, Oud John, A Yewud Chap's Trip to Manchister to see Prince Halbert, page 12

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Questions about yerding

What is yerding the present participle and gerund of?
Yerding is the present participle and gerund of yerd.

Words near yerding in the dictionary

  1. Yerby
  2. Yerbys
  3. yercum
  4. yerd
  5. yerded
  6. yerding
  7. Yerdon
  8. Yerdons
  9. yerds
  10. yere
  11. Yeremei

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Adapted from Wiktionary: yerding (page history and authors); yerd (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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