cab

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A taxicab.
2. n. The covered compartment of a heavy vehicle or machine, such as a truck or locomotive, in which the operator or driver sits.
3. n. A one-horse vehicle for public hire.
4. v. To ride or travel in a taxicab: We cabbed to the opera.
5. v. To drive a taxicab: a student who cabbed for a living.
6. n. An ancient Hebrew unit of measure equal to about 2 liters (2.1 quarts).

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A hackney carriage with either two or four wheels, drawn by one horse; a cabriolet.
2. n. The hooded or covered part of a locomotive, which protects the engineer and fireman from the weather.
3. To pass over in a cab: as, to cab the distance: often used with an indefinite it: as, I'll cab it to Whitehall.
4. n. Any sticky substance.
5. n. A small number of persons secretly united in the performance of some undertaking.
6. n. A Hebrew measure of capacity, for both dry and liquid matter. It was equal to 2.021 liters, or United States pints. Other statements appear to be due to confusion of different measures by Greek metrologists; but a great cab, of the ordinary size, is mentioned in the Talmud.
7. n. See capel.
8. n. A translation (usually literal) of a classical or other work in a foreign language, surreptitiously used by school-boys and students in preparing their lessons or recitations; a crib.
9. To appropriate dishonestly and on the sly; crib; purloin.

Wiktionary

1. n. US A taxi; a taxicab.
2. n. Compartment at the front of a truck or train for the driver
3. n. Any of several four-wheeled carriages; a cabriolet
4. n. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure, held by some to have been about 1.4 liters, by others about 2.4 liters.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A kind of close carriage with two or four wheels, usually a public vehicle.
2. n. The covered part of a locomotive, in which the engineer has his station.
3. n. A Hebrew dry measure, containing a little over two (2.37) pints.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. small two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; with two seats and a folding hood
2. n. a compartment at the front of a motor vehicle or locomotive where driver sits
3. n. a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money
4. v. ride in a taxicab