cabinnoun/ˈkæbɪn/

• 1

  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.
  • And that was how long we stayed in the cabin, pressed together, pulling the future out of each other, sweating and groaning and making sure each of us remembered.
• 2

  informalA chalet or lodge, especially one that can hold large groups of people.

• 3

  A private room on a ship.

  • the captain’s cabin
  • Passengers shall remain in their cabins.
• 4

  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.
• 5

  The passenger area of an airplane.

• 6

  aeronauticsaerospaceaviationThe section of a passenger plane having the same class of service.

• 7

  informalrail-transportrailwaystransportA signal box.

• 8

  A small room; an enclosed place.

  • So long in secret cabin there he held her captive.

cabinverb/ˈkæbɪn/

• 1

  To place in a cabin or other small space.

• 2

  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).
• 3

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

  • I'll make you […] cabin in a cave.