Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Cabin

Cabin (kab"in) , noun

[Old French caban, from Welsh caban booth, cabin, dim. of cab cot, tent; or from French cabane, cabine, Late Latin cabanna, perh. from the Celtic.]

1.
A cottage or small house; a hut. — Swift
A hunting cabin in the west. — E. Everett
2.
A small room; an inclosed place.
So long in secret cabin there he held Her captive. — Spenser
3.
A room in ship for officers or passengers.
Collocations (1)
Cabin boy , a boy whose duty is to wait on the officers and passengers in the cabin of a ship.

Cabin (-ind) , intransitive verb

To live in, or as in, a cabin; to lodge.
I'll make you... cabin in a cave. — Shakespeare

Cabin , transitive verb

To confine in, or as in, a cabin.
I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in To saucy doubts and fears. — Shakespeare