shippon
or ship·pen
[ ship-uhn ]
nounBritish Dialect.
a cow barn or cattle shed.
Origin of 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.
Recollections of Old Liverpool | A NonagenarianThe echo of the ax could be heard from the wood, and the muffled lowing of the kine from the shippon in the yard behind.
A Son of Hagar | Sir Hall Caine
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