ran

Etymology 1

verb

  1. simple past of run
  2. simple past of rin
  3. (nonstandard, colloquial) past participle of run
    […]rather to convince the Underſtanding, than to be eaſily capable of being anſwered ; excuſing your ſelf that you have ran into an Error, ſo foreign as you have declared from your Intention,[…] 1731, Philippus van Limborch, translated by Samuel Chandler, The History of the Inquisition, volume 1, page 231
    " Heretics and schismatics, because they rebel against her, and only belong to the church, as deserters to an army from which they have ran away ;[…] 1837, William Keary, Romanism exposed; or, Strictures on two lectures[…], Goddard and Brown, page 6
    I’ve ran this event many times but in the year 2000, when we were running over the Bodmin Moor part of the course, it lashed down with large, freezing-cold hailstones. 5 March 2012, Helen Summer, Running Crazy, John Blake Publishing, page 209

Etymology 2

noun

  1. (nautical) Yarns coiled on a spun-yarn winch.

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