[kab] 
noun, verb, cabbed, cab⋅bing.| 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. |
| 5. | to ride in a taxicab or horse-drawn cab: They cabbed to the theater. |
[kab] | an ancient Hebrew measure equal to about two quarts. |
[kab-ij] noun, verb, -baged, -bag⋅ing.| 1. | Chiefly British.
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| 2. | to steal; pilfer: He cabbaged whole yards of cloth. |
| the former federal agency (1938–85) that regulated airline fares and assigned routes. Abbreviation: CAB, C.A.B. |
| 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 |
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.
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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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