cab

Etymology 1

Clipping of cabriolet

noun

1. Compartment at the front of a truck or train for the driver.
   a cab ride
2. Shelter at the top of an air traffic control tower or fire lookout tower.
3. Any of several four-wheeled carriages; a cabriolet.
4. Synonym of taxi

verb

1. To travel by taxicab.

Etymology 2

From Hebrew קב (káv).

noun

1. (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.
   […] 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

Etymology 3

Clipping of cabinet

noun

1. (video games, informal) An arcade cabinet, the unit in which a video game is housed in a gaming arcade.
2. (software, Windows) Alternative form of CAB; Clipping of cabinet file.; a compress library archive file.

Etymology 4

noun

1. Alternative form of Cab