Obs. rare. Also 6 cabage. [app. related to CABIN (caban, cabane, cabbin), in sense ‘den or lair of a beast.’] A den or lair.
1567. Maplet, Gr. Forest, 92. He hath his cabbage in the yearth with two contrary wayes vndermined to enter into it, or to run out of it at his pleasure: verie wide at the comming in, but as narrow and straight about the mid cabbage.
1570. Levins, Manip., 11. A cabage, bedde, stega.
