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(nonstandard, colloquial) past participle of run quotations
[…] 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.
2012 March 5, Helen Summer, Running Crazy, John Blake Publishing, page 209
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(nautical) Yarns coiled on a spun-yarn winch. examples