cab|in

cab|in «KAB uhn», noun, verb.

–n.

1. a) a small, roughly built house; hut: »

The settlers lived in a cabin in the woods.

SYNONYM(S): shanty, shack. b) a small house built for some special purpose; cottage: »

a summer cabin, a tourist cabin.

2. a) a private room in a ship. A cabin serves as quarters for an officer or officers, or for a passenger or passengers: »

The 500 passengers occupied 300 cabins.

b) a room on a small boat containing the bunks.

3. the place for passengers in an aircraft: »

Only the stewardess can go from the cabin to the cockpit.

4. the part of a trailer serving as living quarters.

–v.i.

to live in or as if in a cabin: »

Bands of Indians cabined along the borders of the cove (Francis Parkman).

–v.t.

1. to confine within narrow limits; cramp; hamper: »

The fact that so many lives have become cabined and confined explains in a measure, I think, the tremendous growth of amateur participation in the arts (New York Times).

2. to lodge or accommodate in or as if in a cabin.

╂[< Old French cabane < Old Provençal cabana < Late Latin capanna hut. See etym. of doublets cabana (Cf. ↑cabana), cabane. (Cf. ↑cabane)]