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CAB

Volume 4 · 62 words · 1797 Edition

an Hebrew dry measure, being the fifth part of a seah or satum, and the 18th part of an ephah. A cab contained 2½ pints of our corn-measure: a quarter cab was the measure of dove's dung, or more properly a fort of chick-peas called by this name, which was sold at Samaria, during the siege of that city, for five shekels.