Kab

[kab] /kæb/

noun
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[kab] /kæb/
noun
1.
an ancient Hebrew measure equal to about two quarts.
/kæb/
noun
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a variant spelling of cab2
/kæb/
noun
1.

2.
the enclosed compartment of a lorry, locomotive, crane, etc, from which it is driven or operated
3.
(formerly) a light horse-drawn vehicle used for public hire
4.
(Austral, informal) first cab off the rank, the first person, etc, to do or take advantage of something
/kæb/
noun
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an ancient Hebrew measure equal to about 2.3 litres (4 pints)
abbreviation
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(in Britain) Citizens’ Advice Bureau
2.
(in the US) Civil Aeronautics Board
n.

1826, “light, horse-drawn carriage,” shortening of cabriolet (1763), from French cabriolet (18c.), diminutive of cabrioler “leap, caper” (16c./17c.), from Italian capriolare “jump in the air,” from capriola, properly “the leap of a kid,” from Latin capreolus “wild goat, roebuck,” from PIE *kap-ro- “he-goat, buck” (cf. Old Irish gabor, Welsh gafr, Old English hæfr, Old Norse hafr “he-goat”). The carriages had springy suspensions.

Extended to hansoms and other types of carriages, then extended to similar-looking parts of locomotives (1851). Applied especially to public horse carriages, then to automobiles-for-hire (1899) when these began to replace them.
cabernet
1.
Civil Aeronautics Board
2.
coronary artery bypass

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.