vanman

English

Etymology

From van +‎ -man.

Noun

vanman (plural vanmen)

  1. A person employed to transport goods in a van or wagon.
    • 1920, D. H. Lawrence, Touch and Go, Act III, page 90:
      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?
    • 1986, Patricia E. Malcolmson, English Laundresses: A Social History, 1850-1930, page 140:
      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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