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.

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*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.

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*: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.

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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.

Noun

(en noun)

A small long, narrow boat with a high prow and stern, propelled with a single oar, especially in Venice.

A hanging platform or car for transporting people or cargo.

# An enclosed car attached to a cable mechanically lifted up the side of a mountain; an enclosed ski lift; a cable car.

# The car or basket of a hot-air balloon, airship, zeppelin, etc.

# The hanging cart in which a glass-cleaning worker stands to clean exterior glass on tall buildings.

# That part of a transporter bridge that carries passengers, vehicles, along the length of the bridge span.

(rail transport) (US) A type of open railway car with low sides, used to carry heavy freight such as crushed rock or steel.

A free-standing shelving unit in a supermarket.

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