Cab : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Cab	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
cab n a compartment at the front of a motor vehicle or locomotive where driver sits small two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; with two seats and a folding hood Synonym(s): cab, cabriolet a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money Synonym(s): cab, hack, taxi, taxicab v ride in a taxicab Synonym(s): taxi, cab
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Cab \Cab\ (k[acr]b), n. [Abbrev. fr. cabriolet.] 1. A kind of close carriage with two or four wheels, usually a public vehicle. [bd]A cab came clattering up.[b8] --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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Cab \Cab\ (k[acr]b), n. [Heb. qab, fr. q[be]bab to hollow.] A Hebrew dry measure, containing a little over two (2.37) pints. --W. H. Ward. --2 Kings vi. 25.
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.