English Explanatory Dictionary

shippen

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A stable; a cowhouse.

Word forms

shippen shippens 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.

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