Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Dan \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.

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