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/ˈfɛnd.ə(ɹ)/ · noun
(US) panel of a car which encloses the wheel area, especially the front wheels..
Now and then he would make a motion with his feet as if he were running quickly backward upstairs, and would tread on the edge of the fender, so that the fire-irons went flying and the buttered-bun dishes crashed against each other in the hearth.
Our solid, shiny chairs, our immense, dingy sofas, our heavy mahogany tables and our cast-iron fenders, often bearing the initials of long-dead railway companies, likewise our plaster walls of chocolate and duck-egg green and our hissing gasoliers have their roots deep in our national history.
Use fender when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Fender means (US) panel of a car which encloses the wheel area, especially the front wheels..
Common synonyms include guard, wheel arch, wing, mudguard.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Now and then he would make a motion with his feet as if he were running quickly backward upstairs, and would tread on the edge of the fender, so that the fire-irons went flying and the buttered-bun dishes crashed against each other in the hearth.
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