shippon

or ship·pen

[ ship-uhn ]

noun

, British Dialect.

1. a cow barn or cattle shed.

Word History and Origins

Origin of shippon¹

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

Example Sentences

Tom, go to th' shippon, and supper the cows.

From Project Gutenberg

Many a sturdy squire in Lancashire and Shropshire, many a member at Westminster, from Shippon and Sir Watkyn downwards, passed his glass over the water-jug as he drank the King; and if Sophia, as she drew her withered flower from its hiding-place, that it might lie beneath her pillow through the night, prayed for King James and his cause, she did only what many a pretty Jacobite, and some who passed for Whigs, were doing at the same hour.

From Project Gutenberg

He had his forerunner in the ‘down-right’ Shippon, as Pope calls him, of a Georgian House of Commons.

From Project Gutenberg

Has the flood washed into the shippon?

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Inside the quadrangle, for the place had during the past century served as farm instead of hall, barn, cart-shed and shippon were ruinous and empty, but she could fill the space in fancy with sturdy archer, man-at-arms, and corsleted rider, for that the present venerable edifice had been built into an older one the stump of a square tower remained to testify.

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