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Webster 1913 Edition
Shandrydan
Shan′dry-dan
,Noun.
A jocosely depreciative name for a vehicle.
[Ireland]
Definition 2024
shandrydan
shandrydan
English
Noun
shandrydan (plural shandrydans)
- (dated, humorous) A hooded chaise; any similar horse-drawn vehicle with no definite name.
- 1938, Siegfried Sassoon, The Old Century and seven more years, London: Faber, page 134 (1968 edition):
- The odd-man gardener has brought the Rectory shandrydan round to the front door — it was a long elongated open vehicle drawn by a mild old mare named Lucy.
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- (dated, Ireland, humorous, derogatory) A vehicle; a carriage or cart.