shippon

or ship·pen

[ ship-uh n ]
/ ˈʃɪp ən /

noun British Dialect.

a cow barn or cattle shed.

Origin of shippon

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

Words nearby shippon

shipping clerk, shipping fever, shipping lane, shipping room, shipping ton, shippon, ships that pass in the night, shipshape, shipside, shipway, shipworm

Example sentences from the Web for 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.

    A Son of Hagar |Sir Hall Caine

  • The farm-house in which we resided has long since been swept away, with its barns, its piggery, and its shippon.

    Recollections of Old Liverpool |A Nonagenarian