cabstand

American  

[kab-stand] / ˈkæbˌstænd /

noun

1. a place where cabs may wait to be hired.

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Etymology

Origin of cabstand

First recorded in 1855–60; cab ¹ + stand

Example Sentences

He was usually to be found around the cabstand in Madison Square, and lived in Charlton Street.

From The Diamond Master by Futrelle, Jacques

The gray houses hunched their shoulders, lowered their heads, drew their mansard hats and gabled caps over their noses and stood like rows of patient horses at a cabstand under the gray downpour.

From The Azure Rose A Novel by Kauffman, Reginald Wright

He paid for it and went out to the cabstand.

From The Song of the Lark by Cather, Willa Sibert

Let me at least take you to the cabstand, as you don't know Paris.'

From His Masterpiece by Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred

She had to walk some distance before reaching a cabstand, and by the time she did so her feet were wet.

From That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 3 by Trollope, Frances Eleanor