ither

From Middle English ōþer, from Old English ōþer.

ither

1. other
   • 1870, Various, Heads and Tales‎:

     Is't cruel to dowgs, to feed fifty or sixty o' them on crackers and ither sorts o' food, in a kennel like a Christian house, wi' a clear burn flowin' through 't, and to gie them, twice a-week or aftener, during the season, a brattlin rin o' thretty miles after a fox?

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   • 1859, Frederic S. Cozzens, Acadia‎:

     He would have four times as much as he had charged in the first instance, or "he'd tak us over, and land us on the ither side of the bay."

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   • 1857, Various, The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI‎:

     AULD SCOTIA'S SANGS. Although the lays o' ither lands Ha'e mony an artfu' air, They want the stirrin' melody An auld man lo'es to hear.

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   • 1780, Robert Burns, Poems And Songs Of Robert Burns‎:

     "An' may they never learn the gaets, Of ither vile, wanrestfu' pets-- To slink thro' slaps, an' reave an' steal At stacks o' pease, or stocks o' kail!

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ither

1. each other; one another
   • 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:

     And then she changed her voice and would be as saft as honey: 'My puir wee Ailie, was I thrawn till ye? Never mind, my bonnie. You and me are a' that's left, and we maunna be ill to ither.'
     […]
     The noise of the Heriot had not long fallen behind him ere another began, the same eerie sound of burns crying to ither in the darkness. It seemed that the whole earth was overrun with waters.

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