Randan

For the town in France, see Randan, Puy-de-Dôme.

A randan is a boat rowed by three persons, stern and bow using a single oar each and the central person a pair of sculls. The word is of unknown origin, and can hardly be connected with a slang term for a row or spree, which is found as early as the beginning of the 18th century and is generally taken as a variation of random, haphazard.

Additionally in Scotland, the term out on the randan describes a night of drinking and/or socialising.

For example - "Awrite boys, gawn oot oan the randan the nite ?"

Randan is also a business in Middleton, Wisconsin, United States.

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.