Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A man who drives a van.
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Examples
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‘I shall leave it on the pavement, then, and M. Finsbury can arrange with the Vestry as he likes,’ said the vanman.
The Wrong Box 2004
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‘Well, sir,’ said the vanman, ‘I never see such a job.’
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The vanman, I hear you suggest, in a lucid interval.
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And this Pitman he seemed a good deal cut up, and he had the superintendent out, and they got hold of the vanman — him as took the packing – case.
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And this Pitman he seemed a good deal cut up, and he had the superintendent out, and they got hold of the vanman -- him as took the packing-case.
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Some gen'leman (as well as I could make out) had given the vanman a sov.; and so that was where the trouble come in, you see. '
The Wrong Box Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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The vanman, I hear you suggest, in a lucid interval.
The Wrong Box Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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'Well, sir,' said the vanman, 'I never see such a job.'
The Wrong Box Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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'The vanman (I regret to say it) had been drinking, and his language was such as I could never bring myself to repeat.
The Wrong Box Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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But a question: Do you really wish to meet the vanman? '
The Wrong Box Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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