Noun

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(British) The profession of a cabbie, especially one who drives a black cab

Noun

(en noun)

*{{quote-book, year=1886, author=Henry M. Brooks, title=The Olden Time Series, Vol. 6= Literary Curiosities, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=----When our Boston sea Captain, therefore, came into Broadway, a Virginian comes a-board of him--and as he goes down into the cabbin', had to stoop a little, because the '''cabbin was low--for, as I said before, the sloop was 60 tons, although our religious sea-captain ''entered'' but 40 tons at the Naval-Office: Howsomever he had a reserve of conscience, for the Naval-Officer charged him for ''light money , when there was not one light-house in all the ancient dominion. }}

*{{quote-book, year=1881, author=Alexander Leslie, title=The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=This Gabriel declared vnto me that they had saued both the ankers and our hauser, and after we had thus communed, I caused 4 or 5 of them to goe into my cabbin , where I gaue them figs and made them such cheere as I could. }}

*{{quote-book, year=1806, author=James Harrison, title=The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Vol. I (of 2), chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Accordingly, when this youth came on board, he called him into his cabbin , and immediately addressed him in the most impressive manner, to the following effect. }}

*{{quote-book, year=1665, author=Samuel Pepys, title=Diary of Samuel Pepys, October 1665, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Called up about 4 of the clock and so dressed myself and so on board the Bezan, and there finding all my company asleep I would not wake them, but it beginning to be break of day I did stay upon the decke walking, and then into the Maister's cabbin and there laid and slept a little, and so at last was waked by Captain Cocke's calling of me, and so I turned out, and then to chat and talk and laugh, and mighty merry. }}

*{{quote-book, year=1594, author=Thomas Nash, title=The Vnfortunate Traveller, or The Life Of Jack Wilton, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=This was my plot, I knewe a peece of seruice of intelligence, which was presently to bee done, that required a man with all his fiue senses to effect it, and would ouefthrow anie foole that should vndertake it, to this seruice did I animate and egge my foresayd costes and charges, alias, senior veluet-cappe, whose head was not encombered with too much forecast, and comming to him in his cabbin about dinner time, where I found him verie deuoutly paring of his nailes for want of other repast, I entertained him with this solemne oration. }}