ˈsheep-pen
[f. sheep n. + pen n.1; ? partly intended as an analysis of shippon.]
A pen in which to keep sheep.
| 1649 W. Blithe Engl. Improver xxiii. 139 Hay-Stacks, or Sheep-pens, or places of Shade. a 1722 Lisle Husb. (1757) 335 Sir Ambrose Philipps's sheep-pen. 1834 Marryat Peter Simple vii, I inquired for the butcher, whom I found sitting in the sheep-pen with the sheep. 1841 Browning Pippa Passes iii, Many a valley-thief Caught in the sheep-pens. |