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Cabbin vs Cabin - What's the difference?

cabbin | cabin |

As nouns the difference between cabbin and cabin

is that cabbin is obsolete spelling of cabin while cabin is a small dwelling characteristic of the frontier, especially when built from logs with simple tools and not constructed by professional builders, but by those who meant to live in it.

As a verb cabin is

to place in a cabin.

cabbin

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • *{{quote-book, year=1886, author=Henry M. Brooks, title=The Olden Time Series, Vol. 6= Literary Curiosities, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=----When our Boston sea Captain, therefore, came into Broadway, a Virginian comes a-board of him--and as he goes down into the cabbin', had to stoop a little, because the '''cabbin was low--for, as I said before, the sloop was 60 tons, although our religious sea-captain ''entered'' but 40 tons at the Naval-Office: Howsomever he had a reserve of conscience, for the Naval-Officer charged him for ''light money , when there was not one light-house in all the ancient dominion. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1881, author=Alexander Leslie, title=The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=This Gabriel declared vnto me that they had saued both the ankers and our hauser, and after we had thus communed, I caused 4 or 5 of them to goe into my cabbin , where I gaue them figs and made them such cheere as I could. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1806, author=James Harrison, title=The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Vol. I (of 2), chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=Accordingly, when this youth came on board, he called him into his cabbin , and immediately addressed him in the most impressive manner, to the following effect. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1665, author=Samuel Pepys, title=Diary of Samuel Pepys, October 1665, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=Called up about 4 of the clock and so dressed myself and so on board the Bezan, and there finding all my company asleep I would not wake them, but it beginning to be break of day I did stay upon the decke walking, and then into the Maister's cabbin and there laid and slept a little, and so at last was waked by Captain Cocke's calling of me, and so I turned out, and then to chat and talk and laugh, and mighty merry. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1594, author=Thomas Nash, title=The Vnfortunate Traveller, or The Life Of Jack Wilton, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=This was my plot, I knewe a peece of seruice of intelligence, which was presently to bee done, that required a man with all his fiue senses to effect it, and would ouefthrow anie foole that should vndertake it, to this seruice did I animate and egge my foresayd costes and charges, alias, senior veluet-cappe, whose head was not encombered with too much forecast, and comming to him in his cabbin about dinner time, where I found him verie deuoutly paring of his nailes for want of other repast, I entertained him with this solemne oration. }}

    cabin

    English

    (wikipedia cabin)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (lb) A small dwelling characteristic of the frontier, especially when built from logs with simple tools and not constructed by professional builders, but by those who meant to live in it.
  • :
  • *1994 , Michael Grumley, "Life Drawing" in Violet Quill
  • *:And that was how long we stayed in the cabin , pressed together, pulling the future out of each other, sweating and groaning and making sure each of us remembered.
  • (lb) A chalet or lodge, especially one that can hold large groups of people.
  • A compartment on land, usually comprised of logs.
  • A private room on a ship.
  • :
  • *
  • *:There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy. Mail bags, so I understand, are being put on board. Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors. Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place.
  • The interior of a boat, enclosed to create a small room, particularly for sleeping.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=10 , passage=Mr. Cooke had had a sloop?yacht built at Far Harbor, the completion of which had been delayed, and which was but just delivered. […] The Maria had a cabin , which was finished in hard wood and yellow plush, and accommodations for keeping things cold.}}
  • The passenger area of an airplane.
  • The section of a passenger plane having the same class of service.
  • A signal box.
  • A small room; an enclosed place.
  • *(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
  • *:So long in secret cabin there he held her captive.
  • Synonyms

    * cell * chamber * hut * pod * shack * shed

    Antonyms

    * hall * palace * villa

    See also

    * cabana

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To place in a cabin.
  • (obsolete) To live in, or as if in, a cabin; to lodge.
  • * Shakespeare
  • I'll make you cabin in a cave.