English▸ noun
1 a private room or compartment on a ship:
she lay in her cabin on a steamer.
▪ the area for passengers in an aircraft:
animals are not allowed in the cabin of the aircraft.
2 a small wooden shelter or house in a wild or remote area:
the cabin lay three miles into the reserve.
▸ verb
( cabins, cabining, cabined)
[with object] literary confine within narrow bounds: once loosed, the idea of equality is not easily cabined.
– ORIGIN Middle English: from Old French cabane, from Provençal cabana, from late Latin capanna, cavanna.