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Andrew (An)

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A merchant vessel, probably so called from Andrew Doria, the famous Genoese admiral.

“I should think of shallows and of flats,

And see my wealthy Andrew docked in sand.”

Shakespeare: Merchant-of Venice, i. 1.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.