cabless

English

Etymology

From cab +‎ -less.

Adjective

cabless (not comparable)

  1. Without a cab and driver, and therefore a remotely controlled vehicle (driver's compartment in a truck or train).
    a cabless booster locomotive
    • 1959 September, “Talking of Trains: U.S. trend to bigger diesels”, in Trains Illustrated, page 405:
      To a single unit equipped with cab and driving position one or more cabless units can be added as circumstances dictate, doubling or tripling the traction power available without the wasted weight of unnecessary cabs on the additional units.
  2. Without a roof over the driving position.
    • 1957 July, M. D. Greville, “A Diamond Jubilee of Railway Memories”, in Railway Magazine, page 458:
      I recollect taking a very poor view of the apparently inadequate cabs of the Stirling engines, as compared with those of the Brighton; there were even to be seen at this time a number of the completely cabless Cudworths.
  3. Without any taxicabs.
    a bleak, cabless city square

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