Dan (?), n. [OE. dan, danz, OF. danz (prop. only nom.), dan, master, fr. L. dominus. See Dame.]
A title of honor equivalent to master, or sir.
[Obs.]
Old Dan Geoffry, in gently spright
The pure wellhead of poetry did dwell.
Spenser.
What time Dan Abraham left the Chaldee land.
Thomson.
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Dan, n. [Etymol. uncertain.] Mining
A small truck or sledge used in coal mines.
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