arran

plural arrans · alternative arrand

1. Yorkshireobsoletespider

   Sweep'th Arrans down, till all be clean neer lin, Els he'l leauk all Agye when he comes in […]

   1685, George Meriton, “A Yorkeſhire Dialogue in its pure natural Dialect”, in The praise of York-ſhire ale wherein is enumerated ſeveral ſorts of drinks, York: Francis Hildyard, page 59

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   "And th' arrand (spider)? Yes, but I hev: I 've read th' history o' Scotland, and happen knaw as mich on't as ye; and I understand ye to mean to say ye 'll persevere."

   1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], “Hollow’s Cottage”, in Shirley. A Tale. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, page 79

   Shoo wor a beautiful lass—cheeks like a rose, hair colour o' gowd, an' fine an' silky as an arran web.

   1881, James Henry Dixon, chapter XI, in Chronicles and Stories of the Craven Dales, Skipton: Edmondson & Co., page 189

1. abbreviationellipsisEllipsis of Isle of Arran, Scotland.
2. A male given name transferred from the place name, of modern Scottish usage.
3. A village in Saskatchewan, Canada.
4. Synonym of Arranmore (island in County Donegal, Ireland)

   Synonyms: Arranmore

5. A male given name from Tamil.

alternative Aran

1. historicalIn post-Islamic times, a region of eastern Transcaucasia, lying between the Rivers Kura and Araxes, in what is now the Republic of Azerbaijan and the unrecognized Republic of Artsakh, corresponding to the territory of Caucasian Albania on the right bank of the River Kura which was disattached from Greater Armenia in 387 AD. In pre-Islamic times, the term was used for the whole of Caucasian Albania.