shippon, -en Now dial.
(ˈʃɪpən)
Forms: 1 scypen, scipen, scepen, 4 shep(e)ne, s(c)hipne, schepon, 5 shepen, shipun, schepyn, -ene, schyppune, 6 shyppen, 9 shippin, -on, shuppen, -on, 6– shippen.
[OE. scypen fem.:—OTeut. *skupinī, f. skup-: see shop n. and -en2.]
A cattle-shed, a cowhouse.
In quot. 1401 misused, from association with sheep.
| c 900 tr. Bæda's Hist. i. i. (1890) 28 Þær næniᵹ mann for wintres cyle on sumera heᵹ ne maweþ, ne scypene his neatum ne timbreþ. a 1100 Gerefa in Anglia IX. 261 Scipena behweorfan and hlosan eac swa. 13.. E.E. Allit. P. B. 1076 Was neuer so blysful a bour as was a bos þenne Ne no schroude hous so schene as a schepon þare. c 1386 Chaucer Knt.'s T. 1142 The shepne brennynge with the blake smoke. 1401 Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 76 Ȝit makist thou to thi sheep a shepen, and to thi hors a stable. c 1425 Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 670/26 Hoc boster, schyppune. 1570 Levins Manip. 61/17 A shyppen, bouile. 1634 Brereton Trav. (Chetham Soc.) 23 Here is a dainty fine shippen..and hay overhead. c 1746 J. Collier (Tim Bobbin) View Lanc. Dial. Wks. (1775) 41, I gan o glent into th' Shipp'n. 1857 Waugh Lanc. Life 193 When he had to go into the ‘shippon’ early on a winter's morning. 1859 Dickens Haunted House vii. 44 Atkinson and me will take t'other chap..to th' shippon, and it'll be one piece o' work for to mind them, and the cow. 1881 G. Macdonald Mary Marston xv, The muffled low of a cow from a shippen. 1890 Westmld. Gaz. 8 Nov. 4/2 Small Residence and Pleasure Farm..consisting of convenient House, with Stable and Shippon. |
| attrib. 1788 New Lond. Mag. 553 Some men who forced the Shippon door by means of iron-crows. 1863 Mrs. Gaskell Sylvia's L. xv, The..shippen door..stood open. |