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plural cabs
Compartment at the front of a truck or train for the driver. examples
Shelter at the top of an air traffic control tower or fire lookout tower. examples
Any of several four-wheeled carriages; a cabriolet. quotations examples
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!
1877, Anna Sewell, Black Beauty: […], London: Jarrold and Sons, […]
Synonym of taxi examples
third-person singular simple present cabs, present participle cabbing, simple past and past participle cabbed
To travel by taxicab. examples
(historical units of measure) A former Hebrew unit of volume, about equal to 1.3 L as a dry measure or 1.25 L as a liquid measure. quotations
[…] in the famine of Samaria […] the fourth part of a cab of pigeon's dung was sold for five pieces of silver […]
1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, III.3
(video games, informal) An arcade cabinet, the unit in which a video game is housed in a gaming arcade. examples
(software, Windows) Alternative form of CAB; Clipping of cabinet file.; a compress library archive file. examples
Alternative form of Cab examples