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4460058Encyclopædia Britannica, First Edition, Volume II — Cab1771

CAB, an Hebrew dry meaſure, being the ſixth part of a ſeah or ſatum, and the eighteenth part of an ephah: A cab contained 23/6 pints of our corn meaſure: A quarter-cab was the meaſure of dove's dung, or more properly a ſort of chick-peaſe, called by this name, ſold at Samaria, during the ſiege of that city, for five ſhekels.