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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A male ancestor three generations earlier than one's grandfather.
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- noun rare, archaic great-great-great-grandfather; the
grandfather of thegrandfather of one'sfather
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sionnach commented on the word quatrayle
five generations back, the father of your grandfather's grandfather; equivalently the son of your tritavus
February 23, 2007