'CAB' definitions:

Definition of 'cab'

noun

A compartment at the front of a motor vehicle or locomotive where driver sits

noun

Small two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; with two seats and a folding hood [syn: cab, cabriolet]

noun

A car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money [syn: cab, hack, taxi, taxicab]

verb

Ride in a taxicab [syn: taxi, cab]

From: 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: 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: 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]

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.