A private end or ambition; a secret purpose or design; hidden agenda. / An incidental or subsidiary aim or objective.

A side report or statement.

An indirect or concealed purpose or design.

A retired place, spot, or situation; somewhere out-of-the-way.

(dated) A leisure hour.

A notebook or memorandum book. / A subordinate book containing notes or jottings to be afterward extended in due form.

Business aside from the main business. / Something secondary or subordinate.

A secondary cause.

(idiomatic) To win by a small margin; to have a narrow victory.

In gradual steps; bit by bit.