cabinn.
/ˈkabɪn/, U.S. /ˈkæbən/ a. A temporary shelter of slight materials; a tent, booth, temporary hut. Obsolete.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > tent > [noun]
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?a1400 Morte Arth. 3099 Cabanes coverede for kynges anoyntede With clothes of clere golde for knyghtez and oþer.
1581 J. Marbeck Bk. Notes & Common Places 148 They made with pretie boughs and twigs of trees, such little pretie lodgings as we call Cabens or Boothes.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) i. v. 257 Make me a willow Cabine at your gate. View more context for this quotation
a1649 W. Drummond Hist. James IV in Wks. (1711) 76 Cabanes raised of Boughs of Trees and Reeds.
1857–69 C. Heavysege Saul 237 From the wilderness there comes a blast, That casts my cabin of assurance down.
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society > armed hostility > military organization > logistics > quartering > [noun] > encamping > temporary hut or tent
cabin?a1400
cabinet1579
bivvy1916
basher1944
?a1400 Morte Arth. 733 Tentez and othire toylez, and targez fulle ryche, Cabanes and clathe sokkes.
1553 J. Brende tr. Q. Curtius Rufus Hist. viii. f. 175v There fell sodeinly a great storme..within there cabbens [1570 cabbaines], which so moche afflicted the souldiers..that [etc.].
1601 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor iii. iii. sig. G4 The courts of princes..the cabbins of souldiers. View more context for this quotation
1653 H. Holcroft tr. Procopius Persian Wars ii. 67 in tr. Procopius Hist. Warres Justinian The Persians..fell among their Cabbins, and were rifling the camp.
2.
a. A permanent habitation of rough or rudimentary construction; a poor dwelling.Applied esp. to the mud or turf-built dwellings of slaves or impoverished peasantry, as distinguished from the more comfortable ‘cottage’ of working men, or from the ‘hut’ of traditional African homesteads, or the temporary ‘hut’ of travellers, explorers, etc.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > hut or hovel > [noun]
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jhuggi1927
favela1961
hokkie1973
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 57 Caban, lytylle howse, pretoriolum, capana.
1566 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure I. xxviii. f. 58 He dwelte alone, in a litle cabane in the fieldes, not farre from Athenes.
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Niv/2 A Cabbon, gurgustium.
1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1356/1 Being taken in his cabbin by one of the Irishrie.
1618 Sir R. Boyle in Lismore Papers (1886) I. 196 To give her a Room to bwyld her a cabben in.
1670 G. Havers tr. G. Leti Il Cardinalismo di Santa Chiesa i. iii. 65 Not a Mendicant..could be perswaded to leave his Cabane.
a1687 W. Petty Polit. Arithm. (1691) 9 There be [in Ireland] 160,000 Cabins without Chimneys.
1729 G. Shelvocke, Jr. tr. K. Siemienowicz Great Art Artillery iv. 255 The Cabbin of Romulus was only thatched with Straw.
a1745 J. Swift Maxims controlled in Irel. in Wks. (1765) VIII. i. 141 The wretches are forced to pay for a filthy cabin and two ridges of potatoes treble the worth.
1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature II. 369 An extensive country covered with cabans.
1832 H. Martineau Ireland i. 1 A mud cabin here and there is the only vestige of human habitation.
1850 Mrs. Stowe (title) Uncle Tom's Cabin.
b. Used rhetorically for ‘poor dwelling’.
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1607 T. Dekker & J. Webster Famous Hist. Thomas Wyat sig. C2 A simple Cabin, for so great a Prince.
1616 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor (rev. ed.) i. v, in Wks. I. 16 Possesse no gentlemen of our acquaintance, with notice of my lodging..Not that I need to care who know it, for the Cabbin is conuenient.
a. A cell: e.g. of an anchorite or hermit, in a convent or prison; a cell of a honeycomb. Obsolete.
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society > faith > artefacts > monastic property (general) > hermitage > [noun]
anchor settleOE
anchor-house?c1225
cabin1362
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ashram1917
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > types of room generally > [noun] > small room
parrockOE
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cubby-house1880
cwtch1890
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society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun] > cell
houseOE
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Peter1890
booby1899
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flowery dell1925
slot1947
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > superfamily Apoidea (bees) > honeycomb > cell in
cella1398
room1579
cabin1611
working hole1735
pollen cell1888
1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. xii. 35 Clergy in to a caban crepte.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. Rolls Ser. 221 In the theatre..cabans and dennes [L. cellulæ mansionum].
1480 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. ccliv. 329 They put hym in a Cabon and his chapelyne for to shryue hym.
c1522 T. More Treat. Memorare Nouissima in Wks. (1557) I. 84 The gailor..thrusteth your blode into some other caban.
1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique ii. lxiv. 407 [Bees] busie in making combes, & building of little cabbins.
a1604 M. Hanmer Chron. Ireland 57 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) Hee went into France, and made them Cabanes, after the Irish manner, in stead of Monasteries.
1611 Bible (King James) Jer. xxxvii. 16 When Ieremiah was entred into the dungeon, and into the cabbins . View more context for this quotation
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > other types of dwelling > [noun] > vile or miserable
hell-holec1400
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sty1605
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den1836
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > types of room generally > [noun] > private or inner room
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thalamus1850
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1594 R. Carew tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne ii. 69 Gay clothing, and close cabbanes eke she flyes.
1607 R. Wilkinson Merchant Royall 30 She that riseth to dinner..& for every fit of an idle feuer betakes her straight to her cabbin againe.
1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. i. vii. §1. 98 Thou shalt make cabines in the Arke.
a1653 Z. Boyd Zion's Flowers (1855) 71 She steek't her cabin doore.
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the world > animals > by habitat > habitat > [noun] > dwelling place or shelter > of a wild animal
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > hole or pit > [noun] > cave
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Peak1600
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1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. iii. 190 Ac þow..crope in to a kaban for colde of þi nailes.
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 5 A cel or a cabban by nature formed, is vnder.
1589 R. Robinson Golden Mirrour sig. B.3 Cabbins and caues in England and in Wales.
1589 R. Robinson Golden Mirrour sig. C.3 The beastly belling bull, lay coucht in cabbin closse.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 358 It might resemble a very cabbin and caue indeed.
1794 S. Williams Nat. & Civil Hist. Vermont 98 The beavers..build cabins, or houses for themselves.
5. † b. A berth (in a ship). hanging cabin n. a hammock, cot. Obsolete.
a. A room or compartment in a vessel for sleeping or eating in. An apartment or small room in a ship for officers or passengers. Also in an aircraft or spacecraft.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > room, locker, or quarters > [noun] > cabin
cabin1382
cahute1508
society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > spacecraft > parts of spacecraft > [noun] > cabin or cockpit
cabin1908
space cabin1948
society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > parts of aircraft > [noun] > fuselage > cabin or saloon
cabin1908
saloon1921
pressure cabin1933
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Ezek. xxvii. 6 Thi seetis of rowers..and thi litil cabans.
1483 Cath. Angl. 50 A Caban of cuke (coke A.); capana.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 202/1 Cabbyn in a shyppe, cabain.
1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde i. v. f. 27 Beholdinge..the toppe castell..the cabens, the keele.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) i. i. 13 Keepe your Cabines: you do assist the storme. View more context for this quotation
1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 10 The Captaines Cabben or great Cabben.
1718 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 7 Sept. (1965) I. 443 An English Lady..desir'd me to let her go over with me in my Cabin.
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson i. iii. 30 Orellana..drew towards the door of the great cabbin.
1835 J. Ross Narr. Second Voy. North-west Passage xvii. 259 They were taken into the cabin.
1908 H. G. Wells War in Air vii. 214 There followed upon these things a long, deep swaying of the airship, and then Bert began a struggle to get back to his cabin.
1913 C. Grahame-White Aviation 214 The pilot and his passenger are provided with a completely covered body, which they enter through a small door. This cabin, which has a roof, walls, and floor,..is equipped with celluloid windows.
1921 ‘M. Corelli’ Secret Power viii. 87 The steering cabin and accommodation for the pilot and observer.
1962 J. Glenn in J. Glenn et al. Into Orbit 41 You have one large handle for repressurizing the cabin with oxygen in case of a bad leak.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > bed on ship
cabin1598
waterbed1615
sea bed1637
cabin-bed1719
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > types of bed > [noun] > hammock
hammock1555
hanging cabin1598
serpentine1767
sack1829
1598 W. Phillip tr. J. H. van Linschoten Disc. Voy. E. & W. Indies i. iii. 5/1 Each man his cabin to sleepe in.
1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 11 A cabben, a hanging cabben, a Hamacke.
1699 L. Wafer New Voy. & Descr. Isthmus Amer. 212 Captain Davis..was thrown out of his Cabbin.
1732 T. Lediard tr. J. Terrasson Life Sethos II. vii. 120 Cabbins hung upon palm-trees.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine s.v. Transl. French Terms Cajutes, the cabins which are ranged along the inside of a ship.
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the world > health and disease > healing > transport for the sick or injured > [noun] > stretcher
barrowc1300
cabin1587
shutter1843
stretcher1845
Neil Robertson1941
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > conveyance carried by person or animal > [noun] > litter
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cabin1587
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palki1678
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muncheel1807
machila1833
kago1857
dandy1870
1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 449/2 People flocking..some with beires, some with cabbins, some with carts..to fetch awaie the dead and the wounded.
a1631 J. Donne Poems (1650) 143 Some coffin'd in their cabbins lie.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > council of state > [noun] > cabinet
the Cabinet1632
Cabinet Council1632
cabin1636
cabinet1644
society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > council of state > [noun] > cabinet > meeting of
Cabinet Council1632
cabin council1636
Cabinet Council1679
cabinet1711
society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > council of state > [noun] > cabinet > member of
Cabinet Counsellor1611
cabin counsellor1636
1636 D. Featley Clavis Mystica xiv. 193 They are made of the Cabin Councell, and become leaders in our vestries.
1643 True Informer 2 Their Majesties Letters under the cabine Signet.
1644 J. Milton Areopagitica 33 Haughtiness of Prelates and cabin Counsellours that usurpt of late.
1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης iv. 35 Putting off such wholesome acts and counsels, as the politic Cabin at Whitehall had no mind to.
1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης xi. 110 To vindicate and restore the Rights of Parlament invaded by Cabin councels.
a1698 W. Row Suppl. in R. Blair Life (1848) (modernized text) xii. 430 A close cabin council plotting and contriving all things.
Compounds
C1. General attributive. Chiefly in sense 5.
a. † cabin house n. Obsolete
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?1567 M. Parker Whole Psalter cxxxii. 385 Be it my shame: if I go in, My Cabborne house: in rest to lygh.
cabin-keeper n.
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1808 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Devon xvi. 389 Cabin keepers to shipwrights.
cabin-passage n.
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1830 J. Galt Lawrie Todd III. vii. i. 1 I took my passage in her—a cabin-passage.
cabin-passenger n.
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1760 J. Wesley Jrnl. 24 Aug. Half..were cabin passengers.
cabin-scuttle n.
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1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick xxix. 138 The silent steersman would watch the cabin-scuttle.
cabin-stairs n.
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1743 H. Fielding Jonathan Wild iv. vii, in Misc. III. 338 Falling down the Calbin Stairs, he dislocated his Shoulder.
cabin-window n.
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1760 Voy. & Cruises Commodore Walker ii. iii. 182 He..got up by the quarter-ladder in at the cabin window.
b.
cabin-parloured adj. (having a parlour no bigger than a ship's cabin)
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1802 W. Taylor in J. W. Robberds Mem. W. Taylor (1843) I. 410 The squeezed, cabin-parloured houselets of Dover.
C2. Also cabin boy n., cabin mate n. at Additions.† cabin-bed n. Obsolete a berth.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > bed on ship
cabin1598
waterbed1615
sea bed1637
cabin-bed1719
1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 34 He lay in a Cabbin-bed.
cabin class n. the designation of a type of accommodation in a passenger ship (cf. cabin class n., tourist class n. at tourist n. Compounds 2); also attributive.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > room, locker, or quarters > [adjective] > type of passenger accommodation
cabin class1929
1929 Evening News 18 Nov. 5/5 The plans for the cabin-class vessels.
1936 Times 3 Feb. 17/5 There are four agreements in the North Atlantic passenger route—i.e. first-class, cabin, tourist, and third-class.
cabin crew n. the crew members of an aircraft whose principal duty is the care of passengers (or cargo); the flight attendants on an aeroplane.
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society > travel > air or space travel > people who fly in aircraft or spacecraft > [noun] > crew of aircraft or spacecraft > aircraft cabin crew
cabin crew1954
1954 Aviation Week 25 Jan. 39/1 Another film..shows how the cabin crew, by assuming roles as hosts and hostesses, work together to satisfy the customer.
1986 Daily Tel. 17 Feb. 11/7 For would-be air cabin crew the news is discouraging. BA now run a bank of trained part-time stewards/stewardesses, willing to be ‘on call’ for specified tours of duty.
cabin cruiser n. a cruiser with a cabin for living in (in quot. 1921, a flying-boat).
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > pleasure vessel > [noun] > motorboat
motor boat1871
cabin cruiser1921
motor cruiser1921
runabout1932
cruiser1971
society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > [noun] > sea-plane
flying boat1903
hydro-aeroplane1909
hydroplane1911
waterplane1912
airboat1913
seaplane1913
float-seaplane1919
cabin cruiser1921
float-plane1922
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > mechanically propelled vessels > [noun] > motor vessel > motor-cruiser
cabin cruiser1921
motor cruiser1921
cruiser1971
1921 Aircraft Year Book 187 Practical experimental work..was also carried on with the Dayton Wright K.T. ‘Cabin Cruiser’.
1928 Vanity Fair Aug. 73/1 Among the standard craft..is the 38-foot single cabin cruiser.
1959 Manch. Guardian 15 Aug. 5/2 Everywhere in the United States the outboard motor, the cabin cruiser..are to be seen.
cabin fever n. North American colloquial lassitude, restlessness, irritability, or aggressiveness resulting from being confined for too long with few or no companions.
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the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > [noun] > specific type of
prison pallor1896
cabin fever1918
the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > irritability > [noun]
impatiencec1230
eagernessa1400
unsufferancea1400
impatiency1526
testiness1526
impatientness1550
touchiness1603
tetchiness1623
irritability1791
twitchiness1834
rustiness1860
soreheadedness1860
shirtiness1868
chippiness1877
rattiness1898
cabin fever1918
snarkiness1960
edginess1963
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > stupor or coma > [noun] > morbid excitability
inquietude1598
sthenia1788
erethism1800
hypersthenia1855
cabin fever1918
society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > retirement or seclusion > [noun] > confinement > condition resulting from
cabin fever1918
1918 ‘B. M. Bower’ Cabin Fever i. 1 The mind fed too long upon monotony succumbs to the insidious mental ailment which the West calls ‘cabin fever’.
1924 E. Shephard Paul Bunyan 135 But that year they got the spring-fever or cabin-fever or somethin', and got lazy and laid down on their jobs.
1953 E. Munsterhjelm Wind & Caribou 128 Cabin fever..is an insidious disease which creeps unnoticed upon people who are forced to live together for a long time in cramped quarters.
1980 Hunting Ann. 1981 42/2 At first, I figured the post-Christmas grouse forays would be only a cure for the almost terminal case of cabin fever I suffer each winter.
cabin ship n. a vessel carrying only one class of cabin passengers.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel for transporting people or goods > passenger vessel > [noun] > having classes of accommodation > type of
cabin ship1926
1926 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 3 July 7/6 (advt.) Fine Scotch cabin ships to the old country, and real Scotch hospitality.
1958 B. Hamilton Too Much of Water i. 9 What used to be called a cabin ship, with accommodation in a single class.
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cabin mate n. a person with whom one shares a cabin, now esp. on board ship; also in extended use.
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1599 J. Minsheu Percyvall's Dict. Spanish & Eng. Compunción, a comerade or cabbin mate.
1623 J. Bingham tr. Lipsius Compar. Rom. Manner Warre in tr. Xenophon Hist. X 3 Lest it might be consumed by their cabin-mates in lavishness and idle expences.
1791 R. Sadler Wanley Penson III. viii. 9 If Daniel did any thing on that occasion, he rather smoothed the manes, and patted the gaunt sides of his rough cabbin-mates.
1870 ‘M. Twain’ in Galaxy Dec. 879/1 The little circumstance of his cabin-mates in Montana losing small valuables from time to time.
1914 S. Lewis Our Mr. Wrenn xii. 147 ‘Land!’ he bellowed to drowsing cabin-mates as he vaulted out.
2010 K. Showker Unofficial Guide to Cruises i. 56 You pay the..double-occupancy price, and the line matches you with a cabin mate (same gender and smoking preference).
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Indian English. An office; an office cubicle.
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society > occupation and work > workplace > office > [noun]
counterc1386
officec1405
counting-house?1608
kutcheri1610
bureau1702
counting-room1712
dufter1791
cabin1979
1979 P. Nihalani et al. Indian & Brit. Eng. 41 When I entered his cabin, I found him at his desk writing.
1999 Econ. Times (New Delhi) (Nexis) 1 Dec. The carpet is old and threadbare, a few tired faces in tiny cubicles look up from computer screens and a musty smell hits you the moment you step into his small cabin.
2006 Business Today (Nexis) 5 Nov. 108 His cabin on the first floor of Dr Reddy's corporate office at Ameerpet in Hyderabad.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
cabinv.
/ˈkabɪn/, U.S. /ˈkæbən/ 1. intransitive. To dwell, lodge, take shelter, in, or as in, a cabin (senses 1 – 4).
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting a type of place > inhabit type of place [verb (intransitive)] > dwell in or as in other buildings
cabin1586
den1610
stable1651
hut1691
templea1711
bog-trota1734
sty1748
village1819
shanty1840
shack1895
flat1966
1586 J. Ferne Blazon of Gentrie 49 Flying from their houses, and cabaning in woods and caues.
1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus iv. ii. 179 And sucke the Goate, And cabbin in a Caue. View more context for this quotation
1602 W. Fulbecke Pandectes 32 Vnder the shadow of Scipio the Citie, the Ladie of the world did cabbon.
1611 T. Heywood Golden Age i. sig. C2 Perpetuall care shall cabin in my heart.
1865 F. Parkman Champlain ix, in Pioneers of France in New World 298 Bands of Indians cabined along the borders of the cove.
2. transitive. To lodge, entertain, or shelter, as in a cabin.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > providing with dwelling > [verb (transitive)] > in other types of dwelling place
enkennel1577
hovel1582
cabin1602
impalace1611
palace1660
1602 W. Fulbecke Parallele or Conf. Law ii. 74 Chast learning cabboned with frugall contentment.
1745 W. Thompson Sickness p. iv Rock'd by the blast, and cabin'd in the storm.
3.
a. transitive. To shut up or confine within narrow and hampering bounds. (Mostly after Shakespeare.)
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > restriction of free action > restrict in free action [verb (transitive)]
bindc1200
hamper?a1366
chain1377
coarctc1400
prison?a1425
tether?a1505
fetter1526
imprisona1533
strait1533
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measure1560
shacklea1568
to tie up1570
manacle1577
straitena1586
hopple1586
immew16..
scant1600
cabina1616
criba1616
trammela1616
copse1617
cramp1625
cloister1627
incarcerate1640
hidebind1642
strait-lace1662
perstringe1679
hough-band1688
cabin1780
pin1795
strait jacket1814
peg1832
befetter1837
to tie the hands of1866
corset1935
society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restriction or limitation > restrict or limit [verb (transitive)] > in free action
bind971
hamper?a1366
chain1377
coarctc1400
prison?a1425
tether?a1505
fetter1526
imprisona1533
strait1533
swaddle1539
measure1560
shacklea1568
to tie up1570
manacle1577
straitena1586
hopple1586
immew16..
scant1600
cabina1616
criba1616
trammela1616
copse1617
cramp1625
cloister1627
incarcerate1640
hidebind1642
to box up1659
strait-lace1662
perstringe1679
hough-band1688
cabin1780
pin1795
strait jacket1814
peg1832
befetter1837
to tie the hands of1866
hog-tie1924
corset1935
a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iii. iv. 23 Now I am cabin'd, crib'd, confin'd, bound in. View more context for this quotation
1818 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto IV cxxvi. 66 The faculty divine Is chain'd and tortured—cabin'd, cribb'd, confined.
1846 E. Bulwer-Lytton Lucretia III. ii. xviii. 116 [One who] had the authority to cabin his mind in the walls of form.
1871 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) IV. xvii. 58 The newer foundation was cabined, cribbed, and confined in a very narrow space between the Cathedral Church and the buildings of the City.
b. with in.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > restriction of free action > restrict in free action [verb (transitive)]
bindc1200
hamper?a1366
chain1377
coarctc1400
prison?a1425
tether?a1505
fetter1526
imprisona1533
strait1533
swaddle1539
measure1560
shacklea1568
to tie up1570
manacle1577
straitena1586
hopple1586
immew16..
scant1600
cabina1616
criba1616
trammela1616
copse1617
cramp1625
cloister1627
incarcerate1640
hidebind1642
strait-lace1662
perstringe1679
hough-band1688
cabin1780
pin1795
strait jacket1814
peg1832
befetter1837
to tie the hands of1866
corset1935
society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restriction or limitation > restrict or limit [verb (transitive)] > in free action
bind971
hamper?a1366
chain1377
coarctc1400
prison?a1425
tether?a1505
fetter1526
imprisona1533
strait1533
swaddle1539
measure1560
shacklea1568
to tie up1570
manacle1577
straitena1586
hopple1586
immew16..
scant1600
cabina1616
criba1616
trammela1616
copse1617
cramp1625
cloister1627
incarcerate1640
hidebind1642
to box up1659
strait-lace1662
perstringe1679
hough-band1688
cabin1780
pin1795
strait jacket1814
peg1832
befetter1837
to tie the hands of1866
hog-tie1924
corset1935
1780 E. Burke Speech Bristol previous to Election 59 They imagine that their souls are cooped and cabbined in, unless they have some man..dependent on their mercy.
4. transitive. To partition off into small apartments.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > action of dividing or divided condition > divide [verb (transitive)] > into sections or compartments > by a partition
dissept1657
subdivide1726
to box off1815
cabin1815
partition1818
1815 ‘J. Mathers’ Hist. Mr. John Decastro & Brother Bat I. 79 The inside of it..is..cabbined off into small apartments.
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n.1362
v.1586- from off of
- from on high
- from one side to the other
- from one's heart
- from one's own motive
- from one's own proper motive
- from one's soul
- from one's teeth
- from one's very soul
- from oneself
- from or off the bat
- from out
- from out of
- from out to out
- from outer space
- from over
- from pillar to post
- from place to place
- from point to point
- from pole to pole
- from post to pillar
- from post to stem
- from rags to riches
- from rule
- from scratch