cabman
noun
cabmen
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pluralof cabman.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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In the 19th century, Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote: “The one thing the English value is pluck. The cabmen have it; the merchants have it; the journals have it.”
From The Guardian ● Jul. 24, 2017
These tourists, the story goes, inundated the city with complaints about the ineptitude of its cabmen, prompting authorities to institute a more demanding licensing process.
From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 2014
For cabmen, already handicapped by an increase in cab insurance, found themselves faced with the additional hazard of a gasoline tax.
From Time Magazine Archive
New York cabmen, particularly when in trouble, confide in scholarly, cultured, big-framed Editor Brown.
From Time Magazine Archive
The London Programme.—I entirely approve of the spirited protest lately made by the cabmen against that vile instrument of Monopoly, the "Station Omnibus."
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 105, November 18, 1893 by Various
