Middle English Dictionary Entry
cabān n.
Entry Info
| Forms | cabān n. Also cabon(e, cabaign, cabayne, kaban. |
| Etymology | OF cabane |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A hut, cottage; (b) a tent or portable dwelling; (c) a small room; a cell, prison cell; a stall or coop for animals or birds; (d) a cabin on a ship.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)2.227 : Þey bulde hem smale cootes and cabans [L tuguria et casas], and waf ham and heled hem wiþ smale twigges and wiþ reed.
- (1423) Plea & Mem.in Bk.Lond.E.135/157 : Also j caban made of old bordys..accrochith vppon the comune grounde.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)57 : Caban, lytylle howse: Pretoriolum, capana.
- (1458) Doc.in HMC Rep.5 App.522a : Paid for a cabon by the see, 12 d.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)20b : A Caban of a coke: Capana.
b
- c1440(?a1400) Morte Arth.(1) (Thrn)733 : Bryngez blonkez on bourde..Tenntez and othire toylez, and targez full ryche, Cabanes, & clathe-sekkes, and coferez full noble.
- c1450(c1353) Winner & W.(Add 31042)59 : At the creste of a clyffe a caban was rerede, Alle raylede with rede the rofe and the sydes.
- c1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)5173 : Ser Telomew..Cairys in-to a cabayne quare þe kyng liggis.
c
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)1.221 : Þerynne is wonderliche i-graue cabans and dennes [L cellulæ mansionum].
- c1390 PPl.A(1) (Vrn)3.184 : Þou..Creptest in-to a Caban [B: kaban] for Colde of þi nayles.
- ?a1425 Mandev.(2) (Eg 1982)118/21 : Abouen on þat chaumbre in a lytill caban sittez men with foure or fyue gerfawcouns.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)384 : Parrok, or caban: Preteriolum.
- a1450(a1387) PPl.A(2) (RwlPoet 137)12.35 : Clergie in-to a caban crepte anon after, And drow þe dore after him.
- a1500 As I walkyd vppon (Hnt HM 183)15 : And withyn þat cabone lett vs neuer crepe, Ther as lucifer lyeth, I-lok withowt eny lyght.
d
- (1346) Doc.in Nicolas Navy 2477 : [For making a new] caban.
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)2.235 : Noe made a wyndow in his schippe..and housynge and cabans wiþ dyuers florynge.
- (1391) Acc.Exped.Der.in Camd.n.s.5226/5 : Pro cxv waynscot pro factura cabans et diuersorum necessariorum in naui.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)8.1051 : To schip he goth, his wif with childe..Of childe sche began travaile, Wher sche lay in a Caban clos.
- (1399-1401) in Sandahl ME Sea Terms 1184 : Et expenditus in reparacione Cabann' nauis.
- (1406) Wardrobe Acc.Philippa in Archaeol.67181 : Ad ij cabaign facienda infra navem domine..j cabaign subtus le hachez et j supra.
- (1420-1) in Sandahl ME Sea Terms 1184 : In factura..Capstanbarys, le fforcastell, Cabans, Cotys, et alijs apparat' et necessarijs infra quandam Nauem.
- a1425(c1384) WBible(1) (Corp-O 4)Ezek.27.6 : Thei heweden okis of Baasan in to thin ooris, and thei maden..thi litil cabans [L prætoriola] of the ylis of Ytalie.
- a1456(1429) Lydg.Mum.Mercers (Trin-C R.3.20)81 : He saughe a shippe..Þe Caban peynted with floures fresshe and glaade.
- c1440(?a1400) Morte Arth.(1) (Thrn)3671 : Mony kaban [was] clevede, cabills destroyede.
- (a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)196/11 : The kynge was in his cog and lay in his caban.
- c1500 Men may leue (Trin-C R.3.19)63 : Anone he [the shipowner] calleth a carpentere, And byddyth hym..To make the cabans here and there.