vanman

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Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
15
Letters
6

Definition of vanman

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A person employed to transport goods in a van or wagon.
    “Willie. Agreed unanimously. But how are we going to do it? Do you propose to send for Williamson’s furniture van, to pack them in? […] I’ll drive. Who’ll be the vanmen to lift and carry?”
    “Packers and sorters, invariably women and girls, had most in common with the staff of receiving offices, who, indeed, sometimes performed a portion of the same work because some laundries had the marking of linen done by receiving office staff while the sorters marked only those items collected by the vanmen.”

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Etymology

From van + -man.

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