cabman

English edit

cab +‎ -man

cabman (plural cabmen)

The driver of a hackney cab.
- 1897, Bram Stoker, chapter 22, in Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC:
  At length we saw a four-wheeler drive up. Out of it, in leisurely fashion, got Lord Godalming and Morris. And down from the box descended a thick-set working man with his rush-woven basket of tools. Morris paid the cabman, who touched his hat and drove away.
The driver of a taxi.
- 1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XIV, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC:
  A girl in the bakery, aged sixteen, used oaths that would have defeated a cabman.