shippon

or ship·pen

[ ship-uhn ]

nounBritish Dialect.
  1. a cow barn or cattle shed.

Origin of shippon

1
before 900; Middle English schepon,Old English scypen; cognate with German Schuppen; akin to shop

Words Nearby shippon

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How to use shippon in a sentence

  • The farm-house in which we resided has long since been swept away, with its barns, its piggery, and its shippon.

  • The echo of the ax could be heard from the wood, and the muffled lowing of the kine from the shippon in the yard behind.

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