A randan is a
boat rowed by three persons,
stern
The stern is the back or aft-most part of a ship or boat, technically defined as the area built up over the sternpost, extending upwards from the counter rail to the taffrail. The stern lies opposite the bow, the foremost part of a ship. Ori ...
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
Spree may refer to:
Geography
* Spree (river), river in Germany
Film and television
* ''The Spree'', a 1998 American television film directed by Tommy Lee Wallace
* ''Spree'' (film), a 2020 American film starring Joe Keery
* "Spree" (''Numbers' ...
, which is found as early as the beginning of the 18th century and is generally taken as a variation of
random, haphazard.
References
*
Rowing boats
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