With other as head of a noun phrase. In later use usually followed by than. Now literary. Referring to a thing, course of action, etc.

An action rendered unavoidable by circumstances; a ‘Hobson's choice’.

Hobson's choice: the option of taking the one thing offered or nothing; also rhyming slang for ‘voice’; frequently elliptical.

An unavoidable action or situation; = force-put, n. Obsolete. rare.