Obs. An abridged and corrupted form of cavalier (or Sp. caballero), in the 17th c.
1650. A. B., Mutat. Polemo, 16. The poor Cabbs had been all surprised, if not surrendred to our Parliament Army. Ibid., 18. A convention of the Scots States in Parliament, which puts the Cabs (as poor as they were) into a shrewd fright.
