CABIN

n. v.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A cottage or small house; a hut. Swift. A hunting cabin in the west. E. Everett.

2.
n.

A small room; an inclosed place. So long in secret cabin there he held Her captive. Spenser.

3.
n.

A room in ship for officers or passengers. Cabin boy, a boy whose duty is wait on the officers and passengers in the cabin of a ship.

4.
v.

To live in, or as in, a cabin; to lodge. I'll make you . . . cabin in a cave. Shak.

5.
v.

To confine in, or as in, a cabin. I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in To saucy doubts and fears. Shak.


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