an Hebrew dry measure, being the sixth part of a seah or satum, and the eighteenth part of an ephah: A cab contained $2\frac{1}{6}$ pints of our corn measure: A quarter-cab was the measure of dove's dung, or more properly a sort of chick-pea, called by this name, which was sold at Samaria, during the siege of that city, for five shekels.