[f. the sb., q.v. for Forms.]
1. intr. To dwell, lodge, take shelter, in, or as in, a cabin (senses 1–4).
1586. Ferne, Blaz. Gentrie, 49. Flying from their houses, and cabaning in woods and caues.
1588. Shaks., Tit. A., IV. ii. 179. And sucke the Goate, And cabbin in a Caue.
1602. Fulbecke, Pandectes, 32. Vnder the shadow of Scipio the Citie, the Ladie of the world did cabbon.
1611. Heywood, Gold. Age, I. i. Wks. 1874, III. 15. Perpetuall care shall cabin in my heart.
1865. Parkman, Champlain, ix. (1875), 298. Bands of Indians cabined along the borders of the cove.
2. trans. To lodge, entertain, or shelter, as in a cabin.
1602. Fulbecke, 2nd Pt. Parall., 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. trans. To shut up or confine within narrow and hampering bounds. (Mostly after Shakespeare.)
1605. Shaks., Macb. III. iv. 24. Now I am cabin’d, crib’d, confin’d, bound in.
1818. Byron, Ch. Har., IV. cxxvi. The faculty divine Is chain’d and tortured—cabin’d, cribb’d, confined.
1846. Lytton, Lucretia (1853), 253. [One who] had the authority to cabin his mind in the walls of form.
1871. Freeman, Norm. Conq. (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.
1780. Burke, Sp. Bristol, Wks. III. 417. They imagine that their souls are cooped and cabined in, unless they have some man … dependent on their mercy.
4. trans. To partition off into small apartments.
1815. Hist. J. Decastro, I. 79. The inside of it … is … cabbined off into small apartments.
