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

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

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

From Lizzie Leigh by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn

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

By the by, that word "shippon," must have been originally "sheep-pen."

From Th' Barrel Organ by Waugh, Edwin

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