cabining

Verb

cabin (third-person singular simple present cabins, present participle cabining, simple past and past participle cabined)

1. (transitive) To place in a cabin or other small space.
2. (broadly) To limit the scope of.
   • There was a time when this Court’s precedents may have portended the kind of First Amendment liability for purely private property owners that the majority spends so much time rejecting. […] But the Court soon stanched that trend. See Lloyd Corp. v. Tanner, 407 U. S. 551, 561–567 (1972) (cabining...2019, Sonia Sotomayor, dissenting, Manhattan Community Access Corp. v. Halleck, page 16, note 11
3. (intransitive, obsolete) To live in, or as if in, a cabin; to lodge.
   • I'll make you […] cabin in a cave.c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...

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