What is "bander"

Usage examples of "bander".

On the far side of the chasm, Byle Bander should have completed his own measurement today.

Any thought of Byle Bander made her uncomfortable and brought back a memory of the summer that the root broke, one she would rather not have recalled.

The other Bridger family on Nextdown was the Bander family who said they preferred to live by themselves in a wallhouse at the far, evening-light, side of the chasm.

Afterward, it was hard to remember what the reason had been, but she connected it to the return of the Bander family that night.

Finally, there had been only Beedie and Aunt Six left, and when old Slysaw told Aunt Six she had to move out of her old rooms because he meant to give them to a Bander cousin from Midwall, Aunt Six decided to leave.

Still, every now and then she would wake in the chasm night to the sound of floppers honking in the root mat, half dreaming about hiding on the rootwall, lumps of charcoal in her hands, looking up at the adze-cut end of the mainroot while hearing from below that phlegmy chuckle as Slysaw Bander came climbing up the stairs.

That one and the one Byle Bander had found would make up the first pair.

She looked down to see Byle Bander leaning from the bridge rail, staring up at her with the half sneer he always wore.

Though it was something all the Bridgers did from time to time, it was precisely the kind of thing Byle Bander would make an issue of, or harass her about until she would be heartily sorry for having done it.

It was seeing that Byle Bander waiting for me on the bridge, like some old crawly-claw, hiding in a root hole.

And what kind of a Bridger is Byle Bander to report one of his own caste?

Beedie could think of was that phlegmy chuckle of old Slysaw Bander, the sneering eyes of Byle Bander, the two of them like as root hairs.

Byle Bander, watching from a convenient doorway, slipped inside the house to report to his dad.

And Byle Bander hopped, unaware that when the group left the house and headed for the stairs down which Mercald had gone, they were observed with considerable satisfaction by Rootweaver herself.

Evidently all the Bander kin from upstairs and down have come to fill it full, and every window of it has eyes on this stairway.