Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A boat designed to be rowed by three persons.
- noun The method of rowing such a boat, in which the persons fore and aft use one oar each and the person amidships uses two.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A noise or uproar.
- noun A spree: used only in the phrase on the randan (also
on the randy ), on a spree. - noun The finest part of the bran of wheat; the product of the second sifting of meal.
- noun A boat impelled by three rowers, the one amidships using a pair of sculls, and the bowman and strokesman one oar each. Also called
randan-gig .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Prov. Eng. The product of a second sifting of meal; the finest part of the bran.
- noun A boat propelled by three rowers with four oars, the middle rower pulling two.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Scotland
Riotous ordisorderly behaviour. - noun Scotland A
rowdy celebration , aspree .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I was out on the randan last night and my head's still loupin'.
Archive 2010-04-01 Peter Rozovsky 2010
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I was out on the randan last night and my head's still loupin'.
"Thick as mince and a clatty bastit" Peter Rozovsky 2010
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The orig. source is Preh.—Adami spadi, to dig;—Antediluv. randam unconnected with PanArryan randan.
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"He's gey like a man on the randan," he said to himself, peering cautiously, "but he never had a name for the glass though namely for the lass."
Doom Castle Neil Munro
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"There's Gardner guns fer the inimy an 'Lushai dandies fer us," broke in Connor, as he drove a stake in the ground, "wet without and dry within -- an 'Gardner guns are divils on the randan.
Donovan Pasha, and Some People of Egypt — Complete Gilbert Parker 1897
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Connor, as he drove a stake in the ground, wet without and dry within -- "an 'Gardner guns are divils on the randan.
Donovan Pasha, and Some People of Egypt — Volume 4 Gilbert Parker 1897
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Connor, as he drove a stake in the ground, wet without and dry within -- "an 'Gardner guns are divils on the randan.
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897
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We left them in the alehouse; we had a randan row "
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