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Short for Taxicab, it is driven by a cab driver. If you've never been in one, you must be in some remote area of the world.

Cabs are an expensive, but much quicker mode of transportation than public transit and they are much cheaper to use than owning a car.

Cab, a covered public carriage having two or four wheels, and drawn by one horse. In a hansom cab the driver's seat is behind, not in front. Also the covered part at the rear end of a locomotive which protects the engineer and fireman, and shields the levers, etc.

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Entry from Everybody's Cyclopedia, 1912.

Cab (?), n. [Abbrev. fr. cabriolet.]

1.

A kind of close carriage with two or four wheels, usually a public vehicle.

"A cab came clattering up."

Thackeray.

⇒ A cab may have two seats at right 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.

Knight.

 

© Webster 1913.

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Cab (?), n. [Heb. gab, fr. qabab to hollow.]

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

W. H. Ward. 2 Kings vi. 25.

 

© Webster 1913.