vanner

[ van-er ]

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of vanner¹

First recorded in 1970–75; van ² + -er ¹

Example Sentences

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

From Project Gutenberg

The blanket table, too, gives place at the modern mine to the "vanner," of which there are several varieties.

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

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

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The Frue vanner will, as a rule, act well when the pulp is sufficiently and consistently fine.

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