5 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: taxicab \tax"i*cab\, n. an automobile with a professional driver which can be hired to carry passengers; -- also called a {taxi}, and informally called a {cab} or a {hack}. The driver of a taxicab is referred to as a {cab driver} or {cabbie}, and sometimes as a {chauffeur} or {hackie}. Note: Taxicabs may be engaged by a prior appointment made, e.g. by telephone, or they may cruise for passengers, i.e. they may drive in city streets and stop to pick up pasengers when they are signalled by a prospective passenger. The act of signalling a taxicab (usually by a wave of the arm) is often called {to hail a cab} or {to flag down a cab}. [PJC] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: 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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] {Hansom cab}. See {Hansom}. [1913 Webster] 2. The covered part of a locomotive, in which the engineer has his station. --Knight. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: 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. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: cab n 1: a compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits 2: small two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; with two seats and a folding hood [syn: {cabriolet}] 3: a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money [syn: {hack}, {taxi}, {taxicab}] From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: 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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