"ferry van" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "ferry vans",
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      "expansion": "ferry van (plural ferry vans)",
      "name": "en-noun"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "orig": "en:Rail transportation",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1964 January, “News and Comment: Dr. Beeching and the exporters”, in Modern Railways, page 2",
          "text": "More than one exporter had complained that ferry vans were in desperately short supply and that the B.R. fleet of 400 new vans (over 150 of which are now in service) would fall far short of immediately foreseeable requirements. [...] The solution to the exporters' demand for more stock of this kind, it was said, lay in the quicker turnround of the Continental ferry wagons bringing imports to this country.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Andy Gibbs, The Southern Region in the 1970s and 1980s, Amberley Publishing →ISBN https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=oK-IDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1975&lpg=PA1975&dq=%22ferry+vans%22+%22train+ferry%22&source=bl&ots=ZbB1tER9GV&sig=ACfU3U15HhlmwEplxh66aMkzkE8upxS6Cg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwixvtWXjKToAhXKYcAKHRarCToQ6AEwEXoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22ferry%20vans%22%20%22train%20ferry%22&f=false",
          "text": "A grey morning in Tonbridge in 1977 sees No. 33208 rattle through the station with a long train of ferry vans and wagons from the train ferry at Dover.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A railway goods van intended for train ferry traffic to and from continental Europe."
      ],
      "id": "en-ferry_van-en-noun-0g96cpsQ",
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          "rail transport",
          "rail transport"
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        [
          "goods van",
          "goods van"
        ],
        [
          "train ferry",
          "train ferry"
        ],
        [
          "continental Europe",
          "continental Europe"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rail transport, UK, dated) A railway goods van intended for train ferry traffic to and from continental Europe."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "ferry wagon"
        },
        {
          "word": "train ferry"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "dated"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "rail-transport",
        "railways",
        "transport"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "ferry van"
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    {
      "form": "ferry vans",
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        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "ferry van (plural ferry vans)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "ferry wagon"
    },
    {
      "word": "train ferry"
    }
  ],
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        "British English",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English dated terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Rail transportation"
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        {
          "ref": "1964 January, “News and Comment: Dr. Beeching and the exporters”, in Modern Railways, page 2",
          "text": "More than one exporter had complained that ferry vans were in desperately short supply and that the B.R. fleet of 400 new vans (over 150 of which are now in service) would fall far short of immediately foreseeable requirements. [...] The solution to the exporters' demand for more stock of this kind, it was said, lay in the quicker turnround of the Continental ferry wagons bringing imports to this country.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Andy Gibbs, The Southern Region in the 1970s and 1980s, Amberley Publishing →ISBN https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=oK-IDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1975&lpg=PA1975&dq=%22ferry+vans%22+%22train+ferry%22&source=bl&ots=ZbB1tER9GV&sig=ACfU3U15HhlmwEplxh66aMkzkE8upxS6Cg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwixvtWXjKToAhXKYcAKHRarCToQ6AEwEXoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22ferry%20vans%22%20%22train%20ferry%22&f=false",
          "text": "A grey morning in Tonbridge in 1977 sees No. 33208 rattle through the station with a long train of ferry vans and wagons from the train ferry at Dover.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A railway goods van intended for train ferry traffic to and from continental Europe."
      ],
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        [
          "rail transport",
          "rail transport"
        ],
        [
          "goods van",
          "goods van"
        ],
        [
          "train ferry",
          "train ferry"
        ],
        [
          "continental Europe",
          "continental Europe"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rail transport, UK, dated) A railway goods van intended for train ferry traffic to and from continental Europe."
      ],
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        "UK",
        "dated"
      ],
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        "rail-transport",
        "railways",
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      ]
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  "word": "ferry van"
}