Han"som (?), n., Han"som cab` (). [From the name of the inventor.]

A light, low, two-wheeled covered carriage with the driver's seat elevated behind, the reins being passed over the top.

He hailed a cruising hansom . . . " 'Tis the gondola of London," said Lothair. Beaconsfield.

 

© Webster 1913.

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