Cab n.
1. A kind of close carriage with two or four wheels, usually a public vehicle. “A cab came clattering up.”
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.
Han·som n., Han·som cab. A light, low, two-wheeled covered carriage with the driver's seat elevated behind, the reins being passed over the top.
He hailed a cruising hansom . . . =\“ 'Tis the gondola of London,” said Lothair.\= --Beaconsfield.
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hansom cab
n : a two-wheeled horse-drawn covered carriage with the driver's
seat above and behind the passengers [syn: hansom]