guard's van

1. 1.

   the car on a train that is occupied by the guard

   Broadercar

Questions about guard's van

What does guard's van mean?

guard's van means "the car on a train that is occupied by the guard".

Is guard's van a common word?

guard's van is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.