randan
[ran-dan]
- a rowboat designed for three people, one person in the middle using two oars and the other two using one oar each.
- the method for rowing such a boat.
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The randan were favourites, and led; but Moulton fainted, and the four won.
BoatingW. B. Woodgate
Then they go away, and the place keeps on the randan for weeks after.
The Half-HeartedJohn Buchan
This boat put off just when we did, and when both boats reached the broad, open water, the randan proposed a race to Marlow.
It happened that while we were stopping at Cookham, a randan boat was also waiting there to start.
Randan, a boat impelled by three rowers, the midship man sculling, and the bowman and strokesman rowing with oars.
The Slang DictionaryJohn Camden Hotten
randan1
- a boat rowed by three people, in which the person in the middle uses two oars and the people fore and aft use one oar each
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Word Origin
C19: of uncertain origin
randan2
- rowdy behaviour; a spree
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Word Origin
C18: perhaps changed from random
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