a. Obs. [orig. genitive case, of another gate, i.e., of another way, manner or fashion: see GATE.] Of another fashion or sort, of a different kind.
1594. Lyly, Moth. Bombie, I. iii. (N.). His bringing up another-gates marriage than such a minion.
1631. Sanderson, 21 Serm., Ad Aul. i. (1673), 7. That, I ween, is another-gates matter.
1693. W. Robertson, Phraseol. Gen., 891. Tis another-gates matter, than to mock and slight me so.