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arrand

arrand is the alternative form of arran.

arrand is the alternative form of errand.

Meaning of arran

Noun

arran (plural arrans)

  1. (Yorkshire, obsolete) spider
    • 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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Meaning of errand

Noun

errand (plural errands)

  1. (archaic, literary) A mission or quest.
    • What will ye, said King Arthur, and what is your errand?1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “Capitulum XXIII”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book VII, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer...
    Synonyms:
    run
  2. A mundane mission of no great consequence, concerning household or business affairs (dropping items by, doing paperwork, going to a friend's house, etc.)
    • The errands before he could start the project included getting material at the store and getting the tools he had lent his neighbors.
    Synonyms:
    run
  3. The purpose of such a journey.
    • Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St....1910, Emerson Hough, chapter II, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
  4. An oral message trusted to a person for delivery.
    • I had not taught thee then the alphabet
      Of flowers, how they, devicefully being set
      And bound up, might with speechless secrecy
      Deliver errands mutely and mutually.1633, John Donne, Elegy VII

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Forms of arrand

pluralarrands

Questions about arrand

What is arrand the alternative form of?
Arrand is the alternative form of arran.

Words near arrand in the dictionary

  1. Arrambides
  2. arran
  3. Arran brown
  4. Arran browns
  5. Arran-Elderslie
  6. arrand
  7. arrands
  8. arrange
  9. arrange someone's funeral
  10. arrangeability
  11. arrangeable

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