roadster vs van

roadster

noun
  • An open automobile having a front seat and a rumble seat. 

  • A person who lives along the road. 

  • a sea-going vessel riding at anchor in a road or bay. 

  • A clumsy vessel that works its way from one anchorage to another by means of the tides. 

  • A bicycle, or tricycle, adapted for common roads, rather than for the racing track, usually of classic style and steel-framed construction. 

van

noun
  • A large towable vehicle equipped for the repair of structures that cannot easily be moved. 

  • A shovel used in cleansing ore. 

  • A fan or other contrivance, such as a sieve, for winnowing grain. 

  • A covered motor vehicle used to carry goods or (normally less than ten) persons, usually roughly cuboid in shape, longer and higher than a car but relatively smaller than a truck/lorry or a bus. 

  • A wing with which the air is beaten. 

  • An enclosed railway vehicle for transport of goods, such as a boxcar/box van. 

verb
  • To wash or cleanse, as a small portion of ore, on a shovel. 

  • To transport in a van or similar vehicle (especially of horses). 

  • Of law enforcement: to arrest (not necessarily in a van; derived from party van). 

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