cabs

Noun (1)

cab (plural cabs)

1. A compartment at the front of a truck or train for the driver.

   Synonyms:

   driver's compartment

2. A similar compartment in other vehicles.
   • Dad looked up to catch sight of the man in the crane’s cab. He knew that DEVILISH smirk anywhere. It was Fingers.2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], “”, in Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN, page 324
3. A shelter at the top of an air traffic control tower or fire lookout tower.
4. (historical) Any of several two- or four-wheeled carriages; a cabriolet.
   • Captain went out in the cab all the morning. Harry came in after school to feed me and give me water. In the afternoon I was put into the cab. Jerry took as much pains to see if the collar and bridle fitted comfortably, as if he had been John Manly over again. When the crupper was let out a hole or...[1877], Anna Sewell, “A London Cab Horse”, in Black Beauty: […], London: Jarrold and Sons, […], →OCLC, part III, page 158
5. Synonym of taxi, a vehicle available for public hire for single journeys.
   • a cab ride

   Synonyms:

   taxi

Noun (2)

cab (plural cabs)

1. (historical) A former Hebrew unit of volume, about equal to 1.3 L as a dry measure or 1.25 L as a liquid measure.
   • […] in the famine of Samaria […] the fourth part of a cab of pigeon's dung was sold for five pieces of silver […]1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, III.3

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