shippon
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of shippon
before 900; Middle English schepon, Old English scypen; cognate with German Schuppen; akin to shop
Example Sentences
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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.
From A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time by Caine, Hall, Sir
Tom, go to th' shippon, and supper the cows.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various
She locked the door on the outside, and hid the big key on the ledge of the manger in the shippon.
From Women of the Country by Bone, Gertrude
By the by, that word "shippon," must have been originally "sheep-pen."
From Th' Barrel Organ by Waugh, Edwin
Susan sat gloomily at her work, hearing an indistinct but cheerful conversation going on in the shippon, while the cows were being milked.
From Half a Life-Time Ago by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn
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