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[kab] 
noun, verb, cabbed, cab⋅bing.–noun
| 1. | a taxicab. |
| 2. | any of various horse-drawn vehicles, as a hansom or brougham, esp. one for public hire. |
| 3. | the covered or enclosed part of a locomotive, truck, crane, etc., where the operator sits. |
| 4. | the glass-enclosed area of an airport control tower in which the controllers are stationed. |
–verb (used without object)
| 5. | to ride in a taxicab or horse-drawn cab: They cabbed to the theater. |
cab
2 [kab] –noun
| an ancient Hebrew measure equal to about two quarts. |
cab⋅bage
2 [kab-ij] noun, verb, -baged, -bag⋅ing.–noun
| 1. | Chiefly British.
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–verb (used with object), verb (used without object)
| 2. | to steal; pilfer: He cabbaged whole yards of cloth. |
Origin:
1615–25; earlier carbage shred, piece of cloth, appar. var. of garbage wheat straw chopped small (obs. sense)
1615–25; earlier carbage shred, piece of cloth, appar. var. of garbage wheat straw chopped small (obs. sense)
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| cab 1 (kāb) n.
[Short for cabriolet.] |
| cab 2 also kab (kāb) n. An ancient Hebrew unit of measure equal to about 2 liters (2.1 quarts). [Hebrew qab.] |
| CAB abbr. Civil Aeronautics Board |
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Cab
Cab\ (k[a^]b), 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. 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. --Knight.Cab
Cab\ (k[a^]b), n. [Heb. qab, fr. q[=a]bab to hollow.] A Hebrew dry measure, containing a little over two (2.37) pints. --W. H. Ward. --2 Kings vi. 25.
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cab
1826, shortening of cabriolet (1763) "light, horse-drawn carriage," Fr. dim. of cabrioler "leap, caper," from It. capriolare "jump in the air," from L. capreolus "wild goat." The carriages had springy suspensions. Extended to hansoms and other types of carriages; applied to public horse carriages (of automobiles from 1899), then extended to similar parts of locomotives (1859). Cabby is from 1859 (see taxi).
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Cab
hollow (R.V., "kab"), occurs only in 2 Kings 6:25; a dry measure, the sixth part of a seah, and the eighteenth part of an ephah, equal to about two English quarts.
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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cab
chauffeur-driven automobile available for hire to carry passengers between any two points within a city or its suburbs for a fare determined by a meter or zone system or a flat rate. The taxicab is named after the taximeter, an instrument invented by Wilhelm Bruhn in 1891 that automatically recorded the distance traveled and/or the time consumed, thus enabling the fare to be accurately measured. The term cab derives from the cabriolet, a two-wheeled, one-horse carriage often let out for hire
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