cabined

English

Etymology

From cabin +‎ -ed.

Adjective

cabined (not comparable)

1. Confined at close quarters
   • 1906, Herbert M. Hopkins, The Mayor of Warwick‎^[1]:

     He did not realise that there was nothing personal in this aloofness, except in so far as he personified a larger life, whose hopeful outlook stirred in more cabined natures an unacknowledged resentment.

   • 1920, Clarence Stratton, Public Speaking‎^[2]:

     They feel themselves in a state of thraldom; they imagine that their souls are cooped and cabined in, unless they have some man, or some body of men, dependent on their mercy.

   • 1921, William Beebe, Edge of the Jungle‎^[3]:

     Then, if there comes a click in his internal time-clock, he may set out upon another quest--more cabined, cribbed, and confined than any member of a Cook's tourist party.

2. Circumscribed; restricted; having a narrow scope

Derived terms

• uncabined

 

Verb

cabined

1. simple past and past participle of cabin

Anagrams

• deciban