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Cab   /kæb/   Listen
noun
Cab  n.  
1.
A kind of close carriage with two or four wheels, usually a public vehicle. "A cab came clattering up." Note: A cab may have two seats at right angles to the driver's seat, and a door behind; or one seat parallel to the driver's, with the entrance from the side or front.
Hansom cab. See Hansom.
2.
The covered part of a locomotive, in which the engineer has his station.


Cab  n.  A Hebrew dry measure, containing a little over two (2.37) pints.





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"Cab" Quotes from Famous Books



... "Sir, you have given me a gold piece by mistake," with which he offered to return it to me. I might not have particularly remembered this, but for a similar thing which happened on another occasion. When I first reached the Torquay railway station a porter took my luggage to the cab outside. After searching my purse for small change in vain, I gave him half-a-crown as the cab started. After a while he came running after us, shouting to the cabman to stop. I thought to myself that finding me to be such an innocent he had hit upon some excuse for demanding ...
— My Reminiscences • Rabindranath Tagore
... of course," said Edith Whyland; "I have hardly had a word with you. And when you do go, it must be in a cab." ...
— Under the Skylights • Henry Blake Fuller
... the window and there was his cab, And we ran downstairs like a streak, And he said, 'Hullo, you bad dog,' and you crouched to the floor, Paralysed to hear ...
— Georgian Poetry 1916-17 • Various
... buy a few articles in the way of sea-stock for my voyage in a sailing vessel that I should not have needed had I gone by the regular steam lines. So I got some lunch inside of me, and after that I took a cab—a bit of extravagance that my hurry justified—and bustled about from shop to shop and got what I needed inside of an hour; and then I told the man to drive me to ...
— In the Sargasso Sea - A Novel • Thomas A. Janvier
... of day, when its adjacent cab-stands and commonesses are visible, and its gravelled walks are peopled with nursemaids and small children, the Pavilion garden can hardly be called romantic. But by this tender moonlight, in this cool stillness of a placid autumn midnight, ...
— Vixen, Volume I. • M. E. Braddon


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