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shippon

or ship·pen

[ ship-uhn ]

noun

, British Dialect.
  1. a cow barn or cattle shed.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of shippon1

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

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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