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.