RyderDjuna Barnes`s bawdy chronicle of a wildly dysfunctional family was closely modeled on her own, which was headed by an overbearing and brutal father.
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\Ry"der\, n. 1. A clause added to a document; a rider. See {Rider}. [Obs.] 2. [D. rijder, properly, a rider.] A gold coin of Zealand [Netherlands] equal to 14 florins, about $ 5.60.