arter

1. pronunciation spellingPronunciation spelling of after.

   "Is he asleep at last?"...

   "Aye, sir. So 'e should, arter what I put in 'is Madeira!"

   2000, Alexander Kent, Colours Aloft!, McBooks Press, →ISBN, page 115

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   "[…]His right name was Compeyson; and that's the man, dear boy, what you see me a-pounding in the ditch, according to what you truly told your comrade arter I was gone last night.[…]"

   1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter III, in Great Expectations […], volume III, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 45

   […]It was the money left me, and the gains of the first few year wot I sent home to Mr. Jaggers — all for you — when he first come arter you, agreeable to my letter.[…]

   Ibid., chapter XX, volume II, page 344

   ‘I hope es young Dick ’grees to take your ship out ag’in, Peter. But if he don’t, I reckon mebbe I told you a lie about that license o’ mine. I jest wanted to surprise him arter we got to sea, thet’s all. You don’t ’magine a feller es young Dick teached ’d fail, do you?’

   1930, Captain Dingle, “In Conclusion” (chapter 34), in Seaworthy, Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside Press, page 274

plural Arters

1. A surname.