cabless

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adjective

Without a cab and driver, and therefore a remotely controlled vehicle (driver's compartment in a truck or train).

“a cabless booster locomotive”

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Meanings

adjectivecabless (not comparable)
  1. not comparableWithout a cab and driver, and therefore a remotely controlled vehicle (driver's compartment in a truck or train).

    a cabless booster locomotive

    1 more example

    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.

    1959 September, “Talking of Trains: U.S. trend to bigger diesels”, in Trains Illustrated, page 405
  2. not comparableWithout a roof over the driving position.

    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.

    1957 July 28, M. D. Greville, “A Diamond Jubilee of Railway Memories”, in Railway Magazine, page 458
  3. not comparableWithout any taxicabs.

    a bleak, cabless city square

Origin

From cab + -less.

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