van

A covered motor vehicle used to carry goods or (normally less than ten) persons, usually roughly cuboid in shape, Depending on the type of van, it can be bigger or smaller than a pickup truck and SUV, and longer and higher than a car but relatively smaller than a truck/lorry or a bus.

• While Santa Monica has a longstanding prohibition against public camping that includes living in vehicles, the van rental business has been a problem in Venice for years. […] Organizations that provide safe parking locations have limited ca
• Carbon emissions from vans in the UK have risen by 63% since 1990, new analysis shows, as cars are getting cleaner. While more people are opting to drive electric or plug-in hybrid cars, van drivers still prefer diesel because electric vans

An enclosed railway vehicle for transport of goods, such as a boxcar/box van.UK

A light wagon, either covered or open, used by tradesmen and others for the transportation of goods.dated

A large towable vehicle equipped for the repair of structures that cannot easily be moved.

• Designed to be fully mobile and self-contained, the complete equipment includes an air-conditioned van containing all necessary electronic gear and a flat bed trailer in which missiles, jet engines and other large assemblies may be cleaned.

To transport in a van or similar vehicle (especially of horses).transitive

• I have to have a license to own them, a license to train them, my jockey has to have a license to ride them, the van company must have a license to van them, and the black shoe man must have a license to shoe them.
• [They] had their own horses, but they hadn't bothered to van them over to Pine Hollow for this outing.

Of law enforcement: to arrest (not necessarily in a van; derived from party van).Internet

• 2015 13-year-old credited with hacking CIA director’s AOL account gives bizarre, possibly final interview The hacker says he thinks he is about to be v&, or “vanned,” meaning being raided by law enforcement, sometime soon.

Clipping of vanguard.abbreviationalt-ofclipping

• Ten thousand thousand Ensignes high advanc'd, / Standards, and Gonfalons twixt Van and Reare / Streame in the Aire, and for distinction serve
• Then a bumper to the Queen led the van of our good wishes, another to the Church Established, a third was left to the whim of the toaster[…]

A shovel used in cleansing ore.

To wash or cleanse, as a small portion of ore, on a shovel.

A fan or other contrivance, such as a sieve, for winnowing grain.

• with strange amaze / A shepherd meeting thee, the oar surveys, / And names a van (Book XI)

A wing with which the air is beaten.

• So Satan fell; and ſtrait a fiery Globe / Of Angels on full ſail of wing flew nigh, / Who on their plumy Vans receiv'd him ſoft […]
• He wheeled in air, and stretched his vans in vain; / His vans no longer could his flight sustain.