Definitions for hansom cab
han·som cab

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. hansom, hansom cabnoun

   a two-wheeled horse-drawn covered carriage with the driver's seat above and behind the passengers

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Hansom cabnoun

   A two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage, once used as a vehicle for hire.

2. Etymology: After Joseph Hansom

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Hansom cab

   The hansom cab is a kind of horse-drawn carriage designed and patented in 1834 by Joseph Hansom, an architect from York. The vehicle was developed and tested by Hansom in Hinckley, Leicestershire, England. Originally called the Hansom safety cab, it was designed to combine speed with safety, with a low centre of gravity for safe cornering. Hansom's original design was modified by John Chapman and several others to improve its practicability, but retained Hansom's name.Cab is a shortening of cabriolet, reflecting the design of the carriage. It replaced the hackney carriage as a vehicle for hire; with the introduction of clockwork mechanical taximeters to measure fares, the name became taxicab. Hansom cabs enjoyed immense popularity as they were fast, light enough to be pulled by a single horse (making the journey cheaper than travelling in a larger four-wheel coach) and were agile enough to steer around horse-drawn vehicles in the notorious traffic jams of nineteenth-century London. There were up to 7500 hansom cabs in use at the height of their popularity and they quickly spread to other cities in the United Kingdom (including Ireland), as well as continental European cities, particularly Paris, Berlin, and St Petersburg. The cab was introduced to other British Empire cities and to the United States during the late 19th century, being most commonly used in New York City.

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1. hansom cab

   A hansom cab is a type of horse-drawn carriage designed and patented in 1834 by Joseph Hansom, an architect from England. It was originally designed with two wheels and a seat in the rear for the driver and with the passengers seated inside, essentially a kind of taxi. A key feature of the hansom cab is its low center of gravity for safe cornering.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Hansom cab

   a light, low, two-wheeled covered carriage with the driver's seat elevated behind, the reins being passed over the top

2. Etymology: [From the name of the inventor.]

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1. Hansom cab

   The hansom cab is a kind of horse-drawn carriage designed and patented in 1834 by Joseph Hansom, an architect from York. The vehicle was developed and tested by Hansom in Hinckley, Leicestershire, England. Originally called the Hansom safety cab, it was designed to combine speed with safety, with a low centre of gravity for safe cornering. Hansom's original design was modified by John Chapman and several others to improve its practicability, but retained Hansom's name. Cab is a shortening of cabriolet, reflecting the design of the carriage. It replaced the hackney carriage as a vehicle for hire; with the introduction of clockwork mechanical taximeters to measure fares, the name became taxicab. Hansom cabs enjoyed immense popularity as they were fast, light enough to be pulled by a single horse and were agile enough to steer around horse-drawn vehicles in the notorious traffic jams of nineteenth-century London. There were up to 7500 hansom cabs in use at the height of their popularity and they quickly spread to other cities in the United Kingdom, as well as continental European cities, particularly Paris, Berlin, and St Petersburg. The cab was introduced to other British Empire cities and to the United States during the late 19th century, being most commonly used in New York.

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1. Hansom Cab

   The “Safety Cab” patented in 1883 by Joseph Aloysius Hansom. This was not so much an improvement upon the Four-Wheeler as a horse-drawn adaptation of the invalids’ chair introduced at Brighton at the commencement of the century. See “Fly.”

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   The numerical value of hansom cab in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

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   The numerical value of hansom cab in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=hansom cab
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Hansom_Cab
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hansom_Cab
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hansom cab
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=hansom cab
7. ^ Etymology and Origins
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/54657/pg54657-images.html#:~:text=hansom cab