tother

or t'oth·er

[ tuhth -er ]

/ ˈtʌð ər /

adjective, pronoun Older Use.

that other; the other.

Words nearby tother

totem pole, totemism, totemist, totemite, totes, tother, toti-, totidem verbis, toting, totipalmate, totipalmation

Origin of tother

1175–1225; Middle English the tother for thet other, variant of that other the other; see that, other

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Examples from the Web for tother

When I saw t' conductor-lad wi' t' stick in his hand callin' up t' trebles an' basses an' tother sets o' singers, Marry!
More Tales of the Ridings|Frederic Moorman
This road's full er mud holes sence the big rain we had tother day.
Hanover; Or The Persecution of the Lowly|David Bryant Fulton
Then I found myself fallin down on tother side, an that cotton bale tumblin after me.
Carolyn of the Corners|Ruth Belmore Endicott
I read in the papers 'tother day that America needed every man.
The Portygee|Joseph Crosby Lincoln

The tother way is for to go from the city of Turkestan by Persia, and by that way be many journeys by desert.
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville|John Mandeville

British Dictionary definitions for tother

tother

t'other

/ (ˈtʌðə) /

adjective, noun

archaic, or dialect the other

Word Origin for tother

C13 the tother, by mistaken division from thet other (thet, from Old English thæt, neuter of the 1)

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