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Hansom cab   /hˈænsəm 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.


Hansom cab, Hansom  n.  A light, low, two-wheeled covered carriage with the driver's seat elevated behind, the reins being passed over the top. "He hailed a cruising hansom... " 'Tis the gondola of London," said Lothair."





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"Hansom cab" Quotes from Famous Books



... the well-known detective novel The Mystery of the Hansom Cab occurred last evening in one of the most populous thoroughfares in London. It appears that about eight o'clock two men engaged a taxi in Piccadilly to take them to King's Cross. Near the Oxford Street end of Tottenham Court Road the driver was ordered to stop. One of the men alighted, ...
— The Pit Prop Syndicate • Freeman Wills Crofts
... with herself until tea-time, when she heard the sound of a bell ringing far down in the basement. Despite the grand drawing-room, despite the rich rustle of her grey silk dress, this great lady peeped from behind the curtain, and saw a hansom cab. ...
— The Grey Lady • Henry Seton Merriman
... drinks and children who grow up with an alcoholic taint; the realist will compare his lot with other cab-drivers, and find what part of his life is the product of the cab-driving environment, and on that basis he will write his book. To Stevenson and to the romanticist generally, a hansom cab-driver is a mystery behind whose apparent commonplaceness lie magic possibilities beyond all telling; not one but may be the agent of the Prince of Bohemia, ready to drive you off to some mad and magic adventure in a street which is just as commonplace ...
— English Literature: Modern - Home University Library Of Modern Knowledge • G. H. Mair
... The "four-wheeler" is the favorite carriage. A servant calls them from the door-step with a whistle. They are very cheap—one-and-sixpence for two miles, including a call not to exceed fifteen minutes (the call). The hansom cab with one horse is equally cheap, but not so easy to get in and out of. Both these vehicles, with trunks on top of them, and a lady within, drive through the Park side by side with the stately carriages. In this respect London is more ...
— Manners and Social Usages • Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood
... more robust author of "Hymns on the Hill" praised the country, or nature, by comparing it to the town, and used the town itself as a background. "Take," said the critic, "the typically feminine lines, 'To the Inventor of The Hansom Cab'— ...
— The Napoleon of Notting Hill • Gilbert K. Chesterton


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