shippon

American  

[ship-uhn] / ˈʃɪp ən /

Or shippen

noun

British Dialect.

1. a cow barn or cattle shed.

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Etymology

Origin of shippon

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

Example Sentences

A stone-seated porch, white-washed inside, shaded the entrance; and there was a little barn and a shippon, or cow-house attached.

From Th' Barrel Organ by Waugh, Edwin

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

Then he said— “Tom, go to th’ shippon, and supper the cows. 

From Lizzie Leigh by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn

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