shippen

See also: Shippen

English

Alternative forms

• shippon, shipen

Etymology

From Middle English schipne, schepne, schüpene, from Old English scypen (“cow-shed, stall, shippen”), from Proto-Germanic *skupīnō (“stall”), diminutive of *skup- (“shed, barn”). Related to shop, shepen.

Noun

shippen (plural shippens)

1. (UK, archaic, dialectal) A stable; a cowhouse.

References

• “shippen”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.