Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
another-gates .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Archaic Of another sort.
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Examples
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In the great Ovid it lies in an inscription: in my next case it is "another-guess" matter.
De Libris: Prose and Verse Austin Dobson 1880
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Wherefore Christ gives another-guess badge and mark of
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VII. 1634-1716 1823
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Son, if our copper claims had really been in the Gavilan, instead of a-hundred-and-then-some long miles in another-guess direction -- then what? "
Copper Streak Trail Eugene Manlove Rhodes 1901
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I had visited both on more than one occasion previously ” once with a large and very merry party of both sexes, of whom Colley Grattan was one ” but the excursion made in company with G.H. Lewes and George Eliot was another-guess sort of treat, and the days devoted to it stand out in high relief in my memory as some of the most memorable in my life.
What I Remember Trollope, Thomas A 1887
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