shippen

See also: Shippen

English

Alternative forms

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

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