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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

A cowhouse; a shippen.

[Prov. Eng.]

Bessy would either do fieldwork, or attend to the cows, the

shippon

, or churn, or make cheese.

Dickens.

shippon ‎(plural shippons)

(now dialectal) A cattle-shed.
- 1972, Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things, McGraw-Hill 1972, p. 51:
  He almost reached the timberline – but there the weather changed, a damp fog enveloped him, and he spent a couple of hours shivering all alone in a smelly shippon, waiting for the whirling mists to uncover the sun once more.