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cab rank
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synonyms: cabstand, taxi rank ???
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Definition:a taxicab queue, where taxis line up along the curbside for customers
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One man as I was about to pass him at the top of Bedford Street, turned upon me abruptly and came into me, sending me into the road and almost under the wheel of a passing hansom. The verdict of the cab-rank was that he had had some sort of stroke.
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eased himself closer at hand, the noise of his bilgewater some little time subsequently splashing on the ground where it apparently awoke a horse of the cabrank.
James Joyce. Ulysses
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First we drove down to the Northumberland Hotel and waited there until two gentlemen came out and took a cab from the rank.
Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902)
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