cab

• IPA^(key): /kæb/

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• Rhymes: -æb
• Hyphenation: cab

Clipping of cabriolet

cab (plural cabs)

1. A taxi; a taxicab.
2. Compartment at the front of a truck or train for the driver
3. Shelter at the top of an air traffic control tower or fire lookout tower
4. Any of several four-wheeled carriages; a cabriolet
   • 1877, Anna Sewell, Black Beauty

     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 two it all fitted well. There was no check-rein, no curb, nothing but a plain ring snaffle. What a blessing that was!

• (compartment): crew cab, Eurocab, sleeper cab
• (four-wheeled carriage): black cab, hackney cab, Hansom cab, king cab

• cabbie
• cabdriver
• cab forward
• cab unit

cab (third-person singular simple present cabs, present participle cabbing, simple past and past participle cabbed)

1. To travel by taxicab.

From Hebrew קב‎ (káv).

• kab

cab (plural cabs)

1. (historical units of measure) A former Hebrew unit of volume, about equal to 1.3 L as a dry measure or 1¼ L as a liquid measure.
   • 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, III.3:

     […] in the famine of Samaria […] the fourth part of a cab of pigeon's dung was sold for five pieces of silver […]

• (liquid volume): log (¼ cab); hin (3 cabs); bath (18 cabs); cor, kor, homer, chomer (180 cabs)
• (dry volume): seah (6 cabs); ephah (18 cabs); lethek, lethech (90 cabs); homer, chomer, cor, kor (180 cabs)

Clipping of cabinet

cab (plural cabs)

1. (video games, informal) An arcade cabinet, the unit in which a video game is housed in a gaming arcade.

• "Weights and Measures" at Oxford Biblical Studies Online

• -bac-, ABC, B. C. A., B.C.A., BAC, BCA, CBA, bac

• IPA^(key): [kabˠ]

cab m (genitive singular caib, nominative plural cabanna)

1. mouth
2. muzzle

From English cab

cab m (invariable)

1. Hansom cab

• abc

cab m (genitive singular caib, plural caban)

1. mouth

   Dùin do chab!

   Shut your mouth!

cab

1. drink

cab c

1. a convertible car, one with a foldable roof; short for cabriolet