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n. - A large moving van (especially one used for moving furniture).

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  • A kind of pantechnicon of slovenly knowledge; a knower of thousands of things that aren't so.
  • A pantechnicon concealed the manoeuvre from the traffic that followed.
  • One G.S. waggon, laden till it resembled a pantechnicon, was soon in dire straits.
  • It rattled like a pantechnicon and shook the whole place, and I hated it out of all proportion.
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