Dan

Dan (dăn), 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.

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