pantechnicon

• “a kind of pantechnicon of slovenly knowledge; a knower of thousands of things that aren't so.”

  Shandygaff

• “All as if it had tumbled haphazard off the pantechnicon of civilisation as it dragged round the edges of this wild land, and there lay, busy but not rooted in.”

  Kangaroo

• “The whole place was so terribly raw and flat and accidental, as if great pieces of furniture had tumbled out of a pantechnicon and lay discarded by the road.”

  Twilight in Italy

• “But at the nearby Good Hope Centre, a pantechnicon-load of ballot boxes from the populous Mitchell's Plain district was offloaded only shortly after”

  ANC Daily News Briefing

• “An enormous removal van,' she had said, 'a real pantechnicon, and polluting what's left of our country air with clouds of the filthiest black diesel fumes.”

  Put On By Cunning

• “The D. C.4 was heavy, like driving a fully loaded pantechnicon after passing a test on empty minis, and the sheer muscle power needed to hold it straight on the ground and get it into the air was in the circumstances exhausting.”

  Flying Finish

• “On landing in the street he wasted no time and nipped very neatly into the open back of the pantechnicon.”

  Men of Affairs

• “A pantechnicon concealed the manoeuvre from the traffic that followed.”

  Men of Affairs

• “Ethel and St. Nivel, having an unlimited command of money, ordered pretty nearly everything they were advised to take, with the result that we required a small pantechnicon van to take our combined luggage.”

  A Queen's Error

• “One G.S. waggon, laden till it resembled a pantechnicon, was soon in dire straits.”

  With Our Army in Palestine

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