dan
US[dan]/dæn/1 syllable
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Dan (dăn), noun
Origin: OE. dan, danz, OF. danz (prop. only nom.), dan, master, fr. L. dominus. See Dame.
A title of honor equivalent to master, or sir. obsolete
Old Dan Geoffry, in gently spright The pure wellhead of poetry did dwell.— Edmund Spenser
What time Dan Abraham left the Chaldee land.— James Thomson
Dan noun
Origin: Etymol. uncertain.
Mining A small truck or sledge used in coal mines.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54
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