Dan , n. [Etymol. uncertain.]
(Mining) A small truck or sledge used in coal mines.
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.