Definition of "cabinful"

Nine people make a cabinful on a twentynine-footer!

1991, John Caldwell, Desperate Voyage, page 156

"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 — "

2004, Jenny Carroll, Meg Cabot, Code Name Cassandra, page 14

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

2012, Jack Lasenby, Aunt Effie's Ark

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.

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