vanner

[ van-er ]

noun
  1. the owner or driver of a van, especially one of customized design.

Origin of vanner

1
First recorded in 1970–75; van2 + -er1

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How to use vanner in a sentence

  • The vanner reported his black tin as containing 70 per cent.

    A Textbook of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. | Cornelius Beringer and John Jacob Beringer
  • The blanket table, too, gives place at the modern mine to the "vanner," of which there are several varieties.

  • For there was no sounder opinion in Lowshire on a brood mare or a two-year-old "vanner" than Roger.

    Notwithstanding | Mary Cholmondeley
  • Chinamen were working these forerunners of the Frue vanner forty years ago in Australia, and getting fair returns.

    Getting Gold | J. C. F. Johnson
  • The Frue vanner will, as a rule, act well when the pulp is sufficiently and consistently fine.

    Getting Gold | J. C. F. Johnson