noun
- plural of shippon; cattle sheds or barns
Usage: British; dialectal
Examples
- The old shippons on the farm needed repairs before winter.
- Cattle were moved from the fields into the shippons during the storm.
- The farmer converted the unused shippons into storage buildings.
- Traditional shippons were built with stone walls and slate roofs.
- Several shippons dotted the hillside around the dairy farm.