cabin

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A small dwelling characteristic of the frontier, especially when built from logs with simple tools and not constructed by professional builders, but by those who meant to live in it.

   Abraham Lincoln was born in a log cabin.

2. 2
   noun

   A private room on a ship.

   the captain’s cabin

3. 3
   noun

   The interior of a boat, enclosed to create a small room, particularly for sleeping.

   Mr. Cooke had had a sloop yacht built at Far Harbor, the completion of which had been delayed, and which was but just delivered. […] The Maria had a cabin, which was finished in hard wood and yellow plush, and accommodations for keeping things cold.

4. 4
   noun

   A small room; an enclosed place.

   So long in secret cabin there he held her captive.

5. 5
   noun

   A private office; particularly of a doctor, businessman, lawyer, or other professional.

   There’s Kaul’s boss, the overweight owner of a pharmaceutical firm who spends his days wolfing down junk food in the privacy of his cabin.

6. 6
   verb

   To limit the scope of.

   There was a time when this Court’s precedents may have portended the kind of First Amendment liability for purely private property owners that the majority spends so much time rejecting. […] But the Court soon stanched that trend. See Lloyd Corp. v. Tanner, 407 U. S. 551, 561–567 (1972) (cabining Marsh and refusing to extend Logan Valley); Hudgens v. NLRB, 424 U. S. 507, 518 (1976) (making clear that “the rationale of Logan Valley did not survive” Lloyd).

7. 7
   verb

   To live in, or as if in, a cabin; to lodge.

   I'll make you […] cabin in a cave.

8. 8
   noun

   the enclosed compartment of an aircraft or spacecraft where passengers are carried

Etymology

From Middle English caban, cabane, from Old French cabane, from Medieval Latin capanna (“a cabin”); see further etymology there. Doublet of cabana and cabane.