vann.1
/van/, U.S. /væn/ 1.
a. A winnowing basket or shovel; = fan n.1 1a.Also, in modern dialect, = fanner n. 2.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > [noun] > winnowing > fan, cloth, or basket
fana800
windlec1175
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winnow-sheetc1394
winnow-cloth1404
vanc1450
wind-cloth1500
wimsheet1532
winding-cloth1548
shaul1553
winnow1580
wan?1615
sail-fan1707
wind-screen1763
wind-sheet1891
c1450 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 570 Capisterium, a vanne [or a Seve].
1480 Table Prouffytable Lernynge (Caxton) (1964) 36 Ghyselin the mande maker Hath sold his vannes..His temmesis to clense with.
1566 W. Adlington tr. Apuleius .XI. Bks. Golden Asse xlvii. f. 121 Then al the people..toke a great number of Vannes replenished with odors & pleasaunt smelles.
1598 R. Barckley Disc. Felicitie of Man iii. 246 At last he was put in a vanne,..and tossed vp and downe that he might not sleepe.
1610 J. Healey tr. J. L. Vives in tr. St. Augustine Citie of God vi. ix. 251 There was also the vanne..which is otherwise called the creele.
1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey III. xi. 158 A shepherd..the Oar surveys, And names a Van.
1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey in Iliad & Odyssey II. xi. 157 Who shall name The oar..a van.
1801 A. Ranken Hist. France I. 430 The van was a broad shovel, with which they threw the grain with force to a distance, while the light chaff fell behind.
1807 J. Robinson Archæol. Græca v. xiv. 477 To put them in vans or implements for winnowing corn.
1863 J. G. Murphy Comm. Lev. vii. 30 It is used of the van in winnowing.
b. A shovel used for lifting charcoal or testing ore.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > digging or lifting tools > [noun] > shovel > other shovels
shod-shovel1465
scoop1487
peel?a1500
paring-shovel1531
cole-rake1575
rabble1664
van1664
steam shovel1801
ballast wagon1838
wirra1896
power shovel1902
1664 J. Evelyn Sylva 102 Your Coals sufficiently cool'd, with a very long-toothed Rake, and a Vann, you may load them into the Coal-wains.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Vauning This instrument called the Vann [printed Vaun], is a long and moderately deep wooden shovel.
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2689/2 Van, a shovel used in sifting ore.
c. [Compare van v.1] A process of testing ore on a shovel; the amount of metal obtained by this test.
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society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > [noun] > testing
assayc1386
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essay1668
assaying1728
parting assay1758
van1778
docimasy1803
touching1908
heat tinting1910
cupping1921
Magnaflux1935
1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis 216 If the Van will cover or equal the weight of a crown piece, it is good Tin-stuff, and is termed a Crown Van.
1880 M. A. Courtney W. Cornwall Words in M. A. Courtney & T. Q. Couch Gloss. Words Cornwall Van, a rude process of trying tin ores by crushing and washing on a shovel.
1884 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1883–4 12 64 As he watched the process of making a van on a shovel, and saw the copper roll up to the highest point.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > jousting or tilting > [noun] > tilting at quintain > quintain
fanc1405
quintain1440
van1458
quintel1617
1458 Maldon (Essex) Liber B f. iiv John Dale hath in his kepynge a justyng sadel, ii vannys, and a sper.
3. A wing; = fan n.1 4. Chiefly poetic.
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the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > mythical creature or object > [noun] > wing(s) of
wingc1175
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pennon1667
van1667
the world > animals > animal body > general parts > body and limbs > [noun] > wing
wingc1175
flightc1275
pinion?a1425
fan1631
van1815
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 927 His Sail-broad Vannes He spreads for flight. View more context for this quotation
1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iv. 580 Strait a fiery Globe Of Angels on full sail of wing flew nigh, Who on their plumy Vans receiv'd him soft. View more context for this quotation
1700 J. Dryden tr. Ovid Twelfth Bk. Metamorphoses in Fables 446 He wheel'd in Air, and stretch'd his Vans in vain; His Vans no longer cou'd his Flight sustain.
1791 E. Darwin Bot. Garden: Pt. I i. 163 You [Sylphs]..the airy surge, Mix with broad vans.
1815 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1816) I. vii. 215 Its ample vans are calculated to catch the wind as sails, and so to carry it sometimes over the sea.
1816 W. Wordsworth Poems Sentim. xxv Ravens spread their plumy vans.
1830 Ld. Tennyson Love & Death 8 Love..spread his sheeny vans for flight.
1851 D. Jerrold St. Giles & St. James (new ed.) xxxiii, in Writings I. 342 A carrion crow flapped its vans above the heads of man and wife.
1879 E. Arnold Light of Asia vi. 156 Bright butterflies Fluttered their vans, azure and green and gold.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > spar > [noun] > mast > upper part of mast > vane showing wind direction
van1698
vane1707
1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 13 The Vans of the next Ships (though groveling with a neighbouring Wave) could not be discerned.
5. A sail of a windmill; = fan n.1 6c (Cf. vane n. 3a.)
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society > occupation and work > equipment > mills > [noun] > windmill > sail
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wing1484
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vane1581
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arm1724
windsail1725
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wan1767
flyer1790
van1837
1837 W. S. Landor Pentameron in Wks. (1846) II. 352 A sigh sets her windmill at work van over van, incessantly.
1856 E. B. Browning Aurora Leigh iv. 154 As a windmill seen at distance radiating Its delicate white vans against the sky.
1860 O. W. Holmes Professor at Breakfast-table xi. 353 With his arms flying..like the vans of a windmill.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
vann.2
/van/, U.S. /væn/ 1. † d. in one's van, in front of one. Obsolete.
a. The foremost division or detachment of a military or naval force when advancing or set in order for doing so.
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society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > part of army by position > [noun] > van or front
forerunnerseOE
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forefight?1611
vaunta1616
van1633
first line1663
front line1677
firing line1859
society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > navy > a naval force or fleet > [noun] > front
van1633
1633 T. Stafford Pacata Hibernia (1821) 420 The Van went off with few slaine.
1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 799 Spinola himself went in the Van, sending before him Scouts and Pioneers to search the ways and level them.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 535 Armies rush To Battel in the Clouds, before each Van Pric forth the Aerie Knights. View more context for this quotation
1704 London Gaz. No. 4054/1 They were very strong in the Center, and weaker in the Van and Rear.
1783 W. Thomson in R. Watson & W. Thomson Hist. Reign Philip III v. 382 The van was led by the mareschal Lesdiguieres, the main body by the duke of Savoy, and Shomberg..brought up the rear with the artillery.
1816 W. Scott Old Mortality xii, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. III. 239 As Lord Evandale spoke, the van of the insurgents began to make their appearance.
1846 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 II. viii. 355 The van of the Mahratta army..had advanced to within fifteen miles of Chanda.
1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar xix. 308 Roman civilians had followed in the van of the armies.
b. Without article.
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1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. ii. 79 The Foe he had discern'd Rang'd, as to him they did appear, With Van, main Battel, Wings, and Rear.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost v. 589 Standards, and Gonfalons twixt Van and Reare Streame in the Aire. View more context for this quotation
1809 W. Wordsworth Hofer 10 They stagger at the shock From van to rear.
1865 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia V. xviii. iv. 86 Van, having faced to right..and so become Left Wing, will attack Kreczor.
c. Const. of (war, etc.), or with possessive.
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1718 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad IV. xiii. 350 But those my Ship contains, whence distant far, I fight conspicuous in the Van of War.
1813 Ld. Byron Bride Abydos i. vii. 199 Another—and a braver man Was never seen in battle's van.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > order of movement > going first or in front > in advance or in front [phrase]
to (the) headward1577
in (the) front of1609
to the fore with1646
in one's van1720
in the first flight1852
1720 D. Defoe Mem. Cavalier 265 The King's Army [was] in his Rear..and Sir Richard Grenvil in his Van.
2.
a. The foremost portion of, or the foremost position in, a company or train of persons moving, or prepared to move, forwards or onwards.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > order of movement > going first or in front > [noun] > foremost part or position in moving company
point1589
van1616
1616 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Scornful Ladie v. sig. K2v Come who leads? Sir Roger, you shall haue the Van: leade the way.
1674 R. Head Jackson's Recantation sig. B4 I..was commonly in the Van, upon any desperate exploit, having the knowledge of my Weapon [etc.].
1702 C. Beaumont J. Beaumont's Psyche (new ed.) xvi. lxxii. 249 The gallant Pæans of his vocal Van To all the Orbs proclaim'd the Spectacle.
1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller I. 48 My aunt led the van with a red-hot poker; and, in my opinion, she was the most formidable of the party.
1850 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire I. v. 248 The Gauls..formed the van of the great Celtic migration.
1874 F. C. Burnand My Time xxvi. 240 After the van of the procession had marched into the dining-room.
b. figurative, esp. in the phrases to lead (†bear, †have) the van, and in the van.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > advance, progress, or develop [verb (intransitive)] > lead the way
to begin, lead the dancec1325
to lead (also rule) the ringa1450
to lead (bear, have) the vana1661
pioneer1780
to take up the running1825
blaze1841
to lead the way1874
the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > advancing or progressing [phrase] > in the forefront
in the vana1661
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(b)1771 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. lvii. 250 The natural resources of the crown are no longer confided in. Corruption glitters in the van.1820 J. Keats Hyperion: a Fragm. i, in Lamia & Other Poems 164 Be thou therefore in the van Of circumstance.1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present iii. viii. 242 The chief of men is he who stands in the van of men.1879 J. Lubbock Addresses, Polit. & Educ. iv. 87 That nothing less will suffice here if we are to maintain our position in the van of industrial nations.a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Bristol 34 Ratcliffe-Church esteemeth it a greater grace to lead the Van of all parochial, than to follow in the Rear after many Cathedral Churches in England.
1683 W. Kennett tr. Erasmus Witt against Wisdom 9 Why may not I justly bear the Van among the whole troop of Gods?
a1708 W. Beveridge Thes. Theologicus (1710) I. 234 The Apostle gives us a chain of all Christian graces: wherein..faith leads the van.
1772 J. W. Fletcher Logica Genevensis xii. 198 As Moses has led the van of these testimonies..and St. Paul the main body, permit St. James to bring up the rear.
1838 J. L. Stephens Incidents Trav. Greece, Turkey, Russia I. vii. 125 I could not follow them in their long and repeated kneelings and prostrations; but my young Greek..led the van.
3. The fore or front part of a thing. rare.
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the world > space > relative position > front > [noun]
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headc1275
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forepartc1400
foresidec1400
devant1411
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fore-endc1425
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van1726
fore-piece1788
façade1839
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1726 J. Dyer Grongar Hill in New Misc. 81 Silent Nymph!.. Who..lye On the mountain's lonely Van, Beyond the Noise of busy Man.
1769 W. Falconer Shipwreck (ed. 3) ii. 74 While o'er the quivering deck, from van to rear, Broad surges roll in terrible career.
Compounds
attributive, as van-division, van-ship, van-squadron.
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1652 French Occurr. Nov. 29–Dec. 6 216 Ruttier..commanded the Van-squadron, and charged very resolutely up to us.
1795 Ld. Nelson Let. 13 Mar. in Dispatches & Lett. (1845) II. 14 The Admiral made the signal for the Van-ships to join him.
1796 Ld. Nelson Let. 19 June in Dispatches & Lett. (1846) VII. Add. p. lxxxii The Admiral has honoured me with the command of the Van-Division.
1806 A. Duncan Life Nelson 71 He received the..fire from the van ships.
1862 G. Meredith Poet. Wks. (1912) 122 The day was a van-bird of summer.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
vann.3
/van/, U.S. /væn/ I. A vehicle used for transporting goods or people.
1.
a. Originally: a horse-drawn vehicle used chiefly for deliveries or transporting goods or equipment, typically with a covered or partly covered rear section resembling a large box and opening at the back. Now: a motor vehicle used for the same purposes, typically larger than a car but smaller than a truck or lorry, and having an enclosed rear section with no side windows and doors at the back and often the sides.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor lorry, truck, or van > [noun] > van
van1820
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > cart or wagon for conveying goods > [noun] > types of > covered
van1820
1820 W. Shaw Jrnl. 3 July (1972) i. 31 Yesterday after dinner myself & five other persons, intending to go to Cape Town, hired a van, which is an extremely inconvenient vehicle, about four feet wide & ten feet long, covered with a tilt & drawn by eight small horse, or rather ponies.
1824 Lincoln, Rutland, & Stamford Mercury 9 July A conviction for carrying goods in a van, between York and Doncaster, on the Sabbath-day.
1897 Daily News 21 Oct. 5/4 When riding a bicycle he met the defendant driving a carrier's van, and the latter gave him no road whatever.
1941 Evening Tel. & Post (Dundee) 15 July (Late Extra ed.) 4/1 [He] was found guilty at Dundee Police Court to-day of stealing cakes from a baker's van in Stirling Street.
1971 W. J. Burley Guilt Edged i. 9 The goods to be delivered in a plain van.
2017 Langley Advance (Brit. Columbia) (Nexis) 18 Jan. (Final ed.) 6 Your plumber probably has the part in his van.
b. Chiefly North American. A medium-sized motor vehicle of similar design, but fitted with seats and windows in the rear section so as to carry passengers.A passenger van is typically designed to carry ten to fifteen people.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > public service vehicle > [noun] > small bus or van
minibus1958
microbus1959
van1970
daladala1983
1970 Daily Reg. (Red Bank, New Jersey) 9 July 17/7 An 18-seater van for use by the school system.
1979 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 25 Oct. 7 (advt.) Every morning, 1,441 Gulf employees who used to drive their own cars to work now make the trip in vans.
2012 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 17 Feb. d6 The study revealed that as a passenger, you're 23 per cent more likely to die in a collision when riding in a 15-passenger van than in any other type of vehicle.
2. A secure vehicle for transporting prisoners; = prison van n.Originally horse-drawn, but later motorized; cf. sense 1a.Recorded earliest in prison van. See also felon's van n., police van n.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > [noun] > for taking criminals to prison
prison van1829
van1829
felon's van1842
patrol wagon1873
wagon1890
1829 Times 31 Aug. 4/1 He was conveyed to the gaol along with several other prisoners in the prison van.
1830 Standard 8 Apr. At the usual time of conveying the prisoners in the van, they behaved with the greatest violence.
1895 Daily News 17 May 8/6 The Gaoler—There is no van between 10.30 in the morning and four in the afternoon.
2008 B. Thornton Song for You xxxiii. 258 He'd spent months in the county jail, waiting for trial, being driven in the van with the other orange jumpsuited defendants in from the jail to the courthouse.
3. An enclosed railway wagon for conveying luggage, mail, or goods, or for the use of the guard.Frequently with modifying word, indicating what the van is used for: see brake-van n., goods van n., guard's van n., luggage-van n., mail-van n.The usual term in North America is car n.1 3a.
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society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > railway wagon or carriage > closed
boxcar1831
van1837
house car1838
side-door Pullman1887
1837 F. Whishaw Anal. Railways 292 The train consisted of five carriages with passengers, seven empty trucks, and one luggage van.
1854 C. Dickens Hard Times ii. i. 143 Very heavy train and vast quantity of it [sc. luggage] in the van.
1885 Law Times 79 47/1 The portmanteau and hamper had been put into the van.
1930 Times 21 July 13/5 Passengers in ‘transit’ through Bulgaria having registered luggage in the van are obliged to submit to a Customs examination.
2012 Steam World Aug. 48/1 The locomotive..roared through the station at high speed..with the guard hanging on for dear life in his van.
II. A vehicle used as living accommodation; a caravan or camper van.
4.
a. A type of covered wagon, typically wooden and horse-drawn, traditionally used for transport and living accommodation by itinerant people, esp. by Romani or Irish Traveller peoples, or by travelling showmen, circus troupes, etc.; = caravan n. 7a.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > other vehicles according to specific use > [noun] > vehicle used as living accommodation
van1829
house wagon1833
living wagon1851
wagon1851
motor-van1898
motor caravan1909
van1922
trailer caravan1930
trailer1931
caravanette1934
mobile home1934
travel trailer1936
trailer home1940
static caravan1947
recreational vehicle1949
van1952
trailer house1954
caravette1958
camper1960
pickup camper1960
motor home1961
caravan1962
cab-over1964
RV1967
manufactured home1976
micro-mini1989
1829 Berks. Chron. 7 Feb. A man..who engaged him [sc. the little man] to travel about in a van, and exhibit himself to the public.
1858 C. Dickens in Househ. Words Extra Christmas No., 7 Dec. 22/1 The House was so dismal arterwards, that I giv it up, and took to the Wan again.
1876 C. M. Yonge Three Brides II. v. 107 He was born in one of they vans, and hadn't never been to school.
1960 G. Hopkins tr. A. Kern Clown xi. 202 The visitors were fascinated by the red and white painted vans.
2013 D. Morris Shepherds' Huts & Living Vans (e-book, accessed 12 Feb. 2021) A very large showman's van from the 1930s.
b. A vehicle equipped for living in, designed to be towed by a car and typically used for recreational purposes, esp. going on holiday; = caravan n. 7b.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > other vehicles according to specific use > [noun] > vehicle used as living accommodation
van1829
house wagon1833
living wagon1851
wagon1851
motor-van1898
motor caravan1909
van1922
trailer caravan1930
trailer1931
caravanette1934
mobile home1934
travel trailer1936
trailer home1940
static caravan1947
recreational vehicle1949
van1952
trailer house1954
caravette1958
camper1960
pickup camper1960
motor home1961
caravan1962
cab-over1964
RV1967
manufactured home1976
micro-mini1989
1952 Motor Man. (ed. 34) xiii. 244 The owner who wants to tow his caravan from home to some pleasant site where he can leave the van during the summer months.
2013 @caravan_life 22 Mar. in twitter.com (accessed 12 Feb. 2021) Its snowing here in Blackpool so be safe on the roads especially if you are towing your van.
5. A motor vehicle with the rear equipped with sleeping and cooking facilities for use as accommodation while travelling; = camper-van.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > other vehicles according to specific use > [noun] > vehicle used as living accommodation
van1829
house wagon1833
living wagon1851
wagon1851
motor-van1898
motor caravan1909
van1922
trailer caravan1930
trailer1931
caravanette1934
mobile home1934
travel trailer1936
trailer home1940
static caravan1947
recreational vehicle1949
van1952
trailer house1954
caravette1958
camper1960
pickup camper1960
motor home1961
caravan1962
cab-over1964
RV1967
manufactured home1976
micro-mini1989
1922 Indianapolis Star 25 Aug. 20/4 These little automobile touring vans in which some parties of wealth and leisure are touring the country.
1979 Observer 15 July 2/5 Australians who fly in and buy a van to take them round Britain are finding they have to omit the extremities from their itinerary.
2018 @TallulahRendall 18 Oct. in twitter.com (accessed 12 Feb. 2021) My best friend and soul brother is travelling in his van in wales and sent this beautiful picture to me.
Compounds
C1. As a general modifier.
a. In senses 1 and (occasionally) 4, as in van driver, van hire, etc.
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1823 Times 27 Sept. Both hackney-coach and van driver gave up the pursuit of Mr. Elder's horse, judging that it only existed in nubibus.
1856 Perry's Bankrupt & Insolvent Gaz. 1 Jan. 18 Oake George, of Newport, Isle of Wight, carrier, van proprietor, and post boy.
1883 G. Smith I've been a Gipsying App. 345 To meet the case of the gipsy and van children, any sanitary authority should be a registration authority, or at any rate at those towns where hawker's licences can be obtained.
1894 Daily News 25 Jan. 2/4 The fourth annual meeting of the United Kingdom Showmen's and Van Dwellers' Protection Association.
1939 Sydney Morning Herald 2 Dec. 11/2 (headline) Women as van drivers.
1993 L. Collin Bill (Thames TV script) (O.E.D. Archive) 9th Ser. Episode 144. 30 (stage direct.) Garfield stands by the van door looking in the direction that the youths went.
2002 L. Wener Goodnight Steve McQueen xxi. 113 Well, one of us has got to work out how we're going to raise..the wonga for the hotels and then there's the van hire and the sound guy and a roadie.
2021 thesun.co.uk (Nexis) 28 Jan. A survey of 500 van drivers found 91 per cent think it's vital for everyone to be as environmentally friendly as possible.
b. In sense 3, designating a railway employee whose responsibilities relate specifically to the van.† van shunter n. Obsolete
van guard n.
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the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > watching or keeping guard > [noun] > one who watches or keeps guard > guard of a coach or van
shooter1840
van guard1857
society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > riding in a vehicle > [noun] > one who rides in a vehicle > as a guard
shooter1840
van guard1857
1857 Morning Post 45 Apr. 7/4 A lad employed by the South-Western Railway Company as a van guard.
1956 Daily Mail 30 Oct. 7/2 Mrs. Harrigan took a job as a van guard with British Railways.
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1876 F. S. Williams Midland Railway xviii. 635 The vans, as they enter the shed, are at once placed under the orders..of ‘van shunters’.
1894 Illustr. Police News 22 Dec. 7/4 Charged with being concerned in assaulting and robbing Richard Connor, van shunter.
C2.
van boy n. originally and chiefly British (originally) a boy who works on the van of a train; (usually) a boy who works on a delivery van or lorry; cf. van man n.Van boys were strongly associated, esp. in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with petty criminality.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > worker performing process or spec. task > [noun] > who loads or unloads
trimmer1836
van boy1854
1854 Manch. Examiner & Times 2 Sept. 5/4 Mr. Ross, Robert Hart (the van-boy), and Richard Marshall (the guard), were called as witnesses.
1867 Pall Mall Gaz. 10 June 9/1 Henry West, seventeen, a van boy, and Thomas Plows, thirteen, a sawyer, were charged, on remand, with picking pockets, in St. Paul's-churchyard.
1904 J. G. Cloete in E. J. Urwick Stud. Boy Life in Our Cities 130 Many, no doubt, become van-boys because they really are not fit to undertake any more intelligent form of work; others are attracted by the very roughness of the life, which, in their ignorance, they regard as freedom.
2016 Liverpool Echo (Nexis) 15 Jan. 10 (headline) ‘Van boy’ turned property tycoon shares the secrets of his success.
van harness n. harness for a horse which pulls a van or caravan.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [noun] > harness of draught animal
harness1303
plough harnessc1390
geara1400
draught1483
van harness1823
trave harness1839
yoking1873
hitch1876
trace-harness1885
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun]
harness1303
geara1400
graithc1650
tackling1650
horse-gear1653
garniture1670
tackle1684
van harness1823
tack1924
1823 Bury & Norwich Post 5 Mar. (advt.) 5 Waggons, Cart and Van Harness.
1985 Catal. Sale Horse-Drawn Vehicles (Thimbleby & Shorland) 6 Mar. 1 Set of black van harness with 22ʺ collar.
van horse n. a horse used to pull a van or caravan; cf. vanner n.2 1.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by purpose used for > [noun] > draught-horse > that pulls vehicle > of specific type (miscellaneous)
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1820 Bury & Norwich Post 18 Oct. (advt.) To be sold by auction..10 Strong and Active Coach and Van Horses, also a handsome Carriage.
2017 @AbiHey 26 Jan. in twitter.com (accessed 15 Feb. 2021) Here's To The Horse! Vintage footage celebrating van horses, ploughing shires, pit ponies, hunters and all sorts.
van load n. the number of passengers or amount of goods which a van can carry; as much or as many as will fill a van.
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1829 Times 23 Dec. William Hackwood, a carman, stated that in May he was employed by the insolvent's wife to remove a van load of furniture.
1885 Liverpool Daily Post 23 Apr. 5/2 Countless vanloads of happy urchins, bent on enjoying their Sunday school treat.
2002 Z. Radcliffe London Irish iv. 68 Someone was prepared to give him one thousand pounds in cash for a vanload of used wigs, mouldy pencil cases and illustrated bibles.
van man n. originally and chiefly British a man who drives a van, esp. the driver of a delivery van; cf. White Van Man n.
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1829 John Bull 30 Mar. 99/3 Three ‘van’ men..offered to drive him to Woolwich for four shillings.
1922 Daily Mail 12 Dec. 7 I have seen bread rolled in street filth.., bread handled by vanmen who could not keep their hands clean.
2013 Sun (Nexis) 15 Sept. 29 I'm a van man dying to cross-dress on rounds.
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vann.4
/van/, U.S. /væn/, Welsh English /van/ A height or summit.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > hill or mountain > [noun] > summit
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1871 C. Kingsley At Last I. ii. 63 Flat ‘vans’ or hog-backed hills, and broad sweeps of moorland,..are as rare as are steep walls of cliff.
1905 A. R. Wallace My Life I. 249 The range of the great forest of Brecon, with its series of isolated summits or vans.
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vann.5
/van/, U.S. /væn/ Lawn Tennis.
= vantage n. 6. Chiefly in phrases van in, van out, indicating that the first point after deuce has been gained by the server, or by the striker.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > racket games > lawn tennis > [noun] > score or stage of game
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1927 W. E. Collinson Contemp. Eng. 36 Note also the abbreviation van..for advantage and at least one common metaphor from tennis.
1960 N. Hilliard Maori Girl 47 They counted in lawn-tennis style with vans and loves.
1977 Fremdsprachen 21 125 Van in, van out: my van, your van.
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vanv.1
/van/, U.S. /væn/ 1. transitive. To winnow with a fan. ? Obsolete.
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1340 Ayenbite (1866) 139 Oure lhord ssel uanni his corn, ate daye of dome.
c1467 Noble Bk. Cookry (1882) 86 Tak clene whet and bet it in a mortoire and vane it clene.
1545 Bibliotheca Eliotæ Euanno, to van corne or other lyke thyng.
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Vanne or fanne corne, euanno.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Berner, to vanne, or winnow corne.
1631 tr. J. A. Comenius Porta Linguarum Reserata xlii. §450 Hee vanneth, winnoweth and waggeth oates with a wanne.
1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Wt-wannen, to Winnowe, or to Vanne out.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Vanned, fanned or winnowed.
a. = fan v. 3. Obsolete.
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the world > matter > gas > air > moving air > set (air) in motion [verb (transitive)] > with a fan
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1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus at Ventulus Vanne winde saftely on hir in this maner.
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the world > matter > gas > air > moving air > set (air) in motion [verb (transitive)] > blow on or into
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1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. viii. sig. Iv Nor does the wound but rankle more, which is vanned by the publike ayre.
3. To separate and test (ore) by washing on a van or shovel. (Earlier in vanning n.1 2.)
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society > occupation and work > industry > mining > mine [verb (transitive)] > wash or stream
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1839 H. T. De la Beche Rep. Geol. Cornwall xv. 585 We have seen a miner dexterously van pulverised iron pyrites.
1899 S. Baring-Gould Bk. of West II. v. 61 In dressing the ore the miners broke it with their hammers, and then ‘vanned’ it on their broad oak shovels.
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vanv.2
/van/, U.S. /væn/ 1. transitive. To convey or transport (something, esp. a horse) by van or caravan. Frequently with reference to the transportation of a racehorse to a meeting.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > transport of goods in a vehicle > transport goods in vehicle [verb (transitive)] > in a van
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1839 Morning Chron. 3 Apr. Kremlin, who had been vanned here at a heavy expense, made all the play to the cords.
1891 Cassell's Family Mag. 18 172/2 Within another hour its fishy contents have probably been ‘vanned’ to Billingsgate.
1907 Baily's Mag. Dec. 506/1 He was vanned to Kelso, and beat Zohrab and Bellona for the Berwickshire Gold Cup.
1997 P. P. Lillard Montessori in Classroom (rev. ed.) vi. 213 Lisa has packed up her wedding presents and our spare furniture to be vanned to her apartment in California.
2017 Toronto Sun (Nexis) 28 May s17 She collapsed but eventually got back up and was vanned back to the barn.
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society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > confinement > confine [verb (transitive)] > confine in specific type of place
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1897 ‘P. Warung’ Tales Old Regime 34 A convict—one of the two servants who were not ‘van'd’ overnight.
3. transitive. slang (originally and chiefly U.S.). To arrest (a person). Usually in passive.Apparently originating in the context of online political activism against the U.S. Federal government, with reference to people being taken away in a van belonging to a Federal law enforcement agency. In early use also often used with the same reference by hackers (hacker n. 3a).In online communications the past participle vanned often appears in the forms v& (phonetically reflecting the fact that & stands for and) and v7 (because 7 is the unshifted character on the same key as & on a standard English-language keyboard).
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2007 www.urbandictionary.com 29 Oct. (Internet Archive Wayback Machine 22 July 2009) In 1997, Gary Glitter was v7 for possession of CP.
2007 in J. L. Beyer Expect Us (2014) ii. 32 Thank you anons for reporting this... I'm glad he got V&.
2011 www.abc.net.au 6 Sept. (Internet Archive Wayback Machine 17 Apr. 2012) If another hacker I know starts..acting like he/she wants to get v&, I'll immediately and permanently distance myself from that person.
2017 ‘Commander X’ Dark Ops (e-book, accessed 17 Feb. 2021) i. 8 So now you all know how I got vanned. And you just met the snitch who did it to me.
2021 @IronicJeremy 13 Feb. in twitter.com (accessed 17 Feb. 2021) Granted, a few people got vanned, but we didn't burn down buildings and smash windows.
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vanv.3
/van/, U.S. /væn/ rare.
transitive. To go in the van of, to lead.
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society > authority > control > [verb (transitive)] > lead
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1852 A. Smith Life Drama ii Do not the royal souls that van the world Hunger for praises?
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