What does cabined mean?
Cabined means Confined at close quarters.
Cabined
Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Meaning
Confined at close quarters.
Definitions by Sense
- Confined at close quarters
- Circumscribed; restricted; having a narrow scope
- simple past and past participle of cabin
Example Sentences
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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