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Cabman

Cabman \Cab"man\, n.; pl. Cabmen. The driver of a cab.

Wiktionary
cabman

n. 1 The driver of a hackney cab. 2 The driver of a taxi.

WordNet
cabman

n : someone who drives a taxi for a living [syn: taxidriver, taximan, cabdriver, cabby, hack driver, hack-driver, livery driver]

Usage examples of "cabman".

Mycroft had once aided me too, though I did not know it at the time, when, disguised as a cabman, he had driven me to Victoria Station to meet Holmes for our flight from Moriarty in 1891.

The passionate expostulations of the big-faced cabman seemed to be squeezed out of a blocked throat.

The cabman looked at the pieces of silver, which, appearing very minute in his big, grimy palm, symbolised the insignificant results which reward the ambitious courage and toil of a mankind whose day is short on this earth of evil.

The cabman, pausing in his deliberate movements, seemed struck by some misty recollection.

The cabman, short and broad, eyed him with his fierce little eyes that seemed to smart in a clear and corroding liquid.

And looking at the cabman, Stevie perceived this clearly, because he was reasonable.

The cabman went on with his leisurely preparations as if Stevie had not existed.

That little word contained all his sense of indignation and horror at one sort of wretchedness having to feed upon the anguish of the other - at the poor cabman beating the poor horse in the name, as it were, of his poor kids at home.

The cabman said he had heard that tale before, and was making preparations to descend.

A little sum in mental arithmetic, which he worked on the way and submitted to the cabman at the end of the journey, was found to be wrong.

Her strength was nearly spent, but the cabman was on the watch, and, driving up to the entrance, climbed down and bundled her into the cab.

The roofs were piled high with luggage, and the leading cabman shared his seat with a brass-bound trunk of huge dimensions and extremely sharp corners.

A succession of hasty directions to the leading cabman, one of the most docile of men, ended in the performance of a marvellous piece of jugglery with the big trunk, which he first balanced for an infinitesimal period of time on his nose, and then caught with his big toe.

There is a limit to the patience of every man, and the cabman was proceeding to tell her when he was checked by Mr.

The police are now engaged endeavouring to discover the cabman, whom it is stated, the Club servant feels sure he can identify.