shippen

English

Alternative forms

• shippon, shipen

Etymology

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

Noun

shippen (plural shippens)

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

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “shippen”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)