A light two-wheeled hackney carriage formerly used in Ireland and Scotland. Obsolete (historical in later use).

In sense 3, as hack cab, hack coach, etc.

= Patent Safety Cab n..

the original name for the hansom cab (hansom cab, n.), which was fitted with a device to prevent overturning should the cab tilt from side to…

A low-hung two-wheeled cabriolet holding two persons inside, the driver being mounted on a dickey or elevated seat behind, and the reins going…

†(a) a large type of horse-drawn cab (obsolete) (b) (North American) a passenger train carriage having a driver's compartment at one or both ends.

A hansom cab, esp. one that was built and operated in violation of the vehicle's original patent. Now historical.

slang or colloquial. A four-wheeled cab.

A kind of small one-horse fly or cab. Obsolete.