[f. CAB sb.3] A man whose occupation is to drive a public cab.

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1850.  Mrs. Browning, Poems, II. 191. The cabman’s cry to get out of the way.

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1860.  Vacat. Tour., 59. Half a dozen cabmen shouting in my ears. Ibid., 137. The forester and shepherd know them as well as a London cabman does the streets.

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