Adjective

(-)

Confined at close quarters

* {{quote-book, year=1906, author=Herbert M. Hopkins, title=The Mayor of Warwick, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=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. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1920, author=Clarence Stratton, title=Public Speaking, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=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. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1921, author=William Beebe, title=Edge of the Jungle, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=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. }}