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▪ I. ran-tan, n. slang or dial.|ˈræntæn|
[Echoic: in sense 2 perh. for randan.]
1. A word expressive of a loud banging noise; hence n. as a name for this, and † attrib. = noisy.
1630J. Taylor (Water P.) Wks. I. 110 There is ran tan Tom Tinker and his Tib. c1640Shirley Capt. Underwit iii. iii. in Bullen O. Pl. (1883) II. 366 Ran tan: enough,—you must not waste your lunges Too much at once. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. III. vii. v. Beating sharp ran-tan, To arms, To arms! 1869Lonsdale Gloss., Rantan, a loud and long knocking at a door.
2. A riot, drinking bout. on the ran-tan, on the spree, on the ‘randan’.
1853Dickens in Househ. Words 24 Sept. 75 For the one word drunk,..I find..beery, winey, slewed, on the ran-tan. 1886Rochdale Gloss., Ran-tan, riot, involving the idea of breaking furniture, when the actor is drunken. 1936I. L. Idriess Cattle King v. 43 When sober, he worked miracles with his limited materials. When ‘on the ran-tan’, which was every three months, Charlie did the cooking. 1959G. Slatter Gun in my Hand iv. 42, I remember you on that trip to Nelson for the footie. You really got on the rantan. I bet you never been back to that pub! 1963A. Prior Z Cars Again (1964) ii. 22 Wilson had been out on the ran-tan, came home late.
▪ II. ran-tan, v. north. dial. Now rare.|ˈræntæn|
Also ran-dan.
[f. the n.]
intr. To make a noise with unruly singing, and the beating of pots and kettles, at the house of a man who has beaten his wife. Also trans., with husband as obj. Hence ˌranˈtanning vbl. n.
1866J. E. Brogden Provincial Words & Expressions Lincs. 163 Ran-dan, to ride the stang (or pole) connected with agricultural lynch-law, usually applied to husbands who have beaten their wives. 1886Folk-Lore Jrnl. IV. 262 He'd ought to be ran-dan'd out o' the town. 1891Lincolnshire N. & Q. II. vi. 186 As the news spreads, ‘So-and-so threshed his wife yisterday mornin',’ it is accompanied by the comment, ‘We must ‘ran-tan’ him to-night.’ 1928Observer 26 Feb. 17/2 Seventeen villagers of Lincolnshire have been fined for ‘rantanning’... Rantanning is the ‘rough music’ of kettle and pan, in which the rustic moralist conveys his sense of outraged propriety. |