van

Forms

1.A large towable vehicle equipped for the repair of structures that cannot easily be moved.
2.Clipping of vanguard.
- As for the guides, they were debarred from the pleasure of discourse, the one being placed in the van, and the other obliged to bring up the rear.
- Bhīṣma then outlined the following strategy: “… Let Karṇa, clad in armour, stand in the van. And I shall command the entire army in the rear.”
- We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine. We passed on the way the van of the guests from Asquith.
3.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.
4.An enclosed railway vehicle for transport of goods, such as a boxcar/box van.

1.To wash or cleanse, as a small portion of ore, on a shovel.
2.To transport in a van or similar vehicle (especially of horses).
3.Of law enforcement: to arrest (not necessarily in a van; derived from party van).
- Commander X: Yep, so now you all know how I got vanned. And you just met the snitch who did it to me.
- He later told CW that he had been "v&" or "vanned" by the police, and he expressed surprise that the police showed him detailed transcripts of his conversations.