[f. VAN sb.3]
1. trans. To send in a van.
1840. New Monthly Mag., LX. 167. Vanning his horses to the different meetings.
1862. H. H. Dixon, Scott & Sebright, iii. 203. When … he [a racehorse] could hardly move in his box, he was vanned down to Hermit Lodge.
2. To confine in a van.
1897. P. Warung, Tales Old Regime, 34. A convict—one of the two servants who were not ‘van’d’ overnight.
