cabinful

English

Etymology

cabin +‎ -ful

Noun

cabinful (plural cabinfuls or cabinsful)

1. The amount that fits in a cabin.
   • 1991, John Caldwell, Desperate Voyage, →ISBN, page 156:

     Nine people make a cabinful on a twentynine-footer!

   • 2004, Jenny Carroll, Meg Cabot, Code Name Cassandra, →ISBN, page 14:

     "It's just that, of all our female counselors this year," Pamela was going on, "you really strike me as the one most capable of handling a cabinful of little boys. And you scored so well in your first aid and lifesaving courses — "

   • 2012, Jack Lasenby, Aunt Effie's Ark, →ISBN:

     Then how do you like having a cabinful of gorillas on the deck above you?

   • 2015, Emily Foster, The Ohio Frontier: An Anthology of Early Writings, →ISBN, page 139:

     While Fortescue Cuming could entertain a cabinful of young men with a violin in 1807, Frances Trollope noted that Cincinnatians organized formal balls for young people of quality twenty years later.