Help Needed with a Mystery Word

[horseshoes]

Shippin or shippon? I believe it is a word used for an out building or cow shed, but from which area? Is it the North East perhaps? I'm sure I haven't spelt it correctly so apologies. Any help please?

[Mamyalynne]

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shippon

[237SJ]

When I was little, shippin was a word for the building where the cows were milked. That was in Devon so maybe it`s a SW word.

[Mamyalynne]

Grew up hearing it here in Lancs.

[Psybbo]

Ship´pon
n. 1. A cowhouse; a shippen.

[HowardKennitby]

Shippen, shippon - both in Chambers; a cowhouse or cattle shed.

[237SJ]

As the link says, maybe it was spelt shippen.

[Mamyalynne]

I also liked 'Midden'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midden

[HowardKennitby]

this from OED

shippon, -en. Now dial. Forms: 1 scypen, scipen, scepen, 4 shep(e)ne, s(c)hipne, schepon, 5 shepen, shipun, schepyn, -ene, schyppune, 6 shyppen, 9 shippin, -on, shuppen, -on, 6_ shippen.
[OE. scypen fem.:---OTeut. *skupin_, f. skup-: see shop n. and -en2.]

A cattle-shed, a cowhouse.

In quot. 1401 misused, from association with sheep.

900 tr. Bæda's Hist. i. i. (1890) 28 þær næni_ mann for wintres cyle on sumera he_ ne maweÞ, ne scypene his neatum ne timbreÞ.
1100 Gerefa in Anglia IX. 261 Scipena behweorfan and hlosan eac swa.
13_ E.E. Allit. P. B. 1076 Was neuer so blysful a bour as was a bos Þenne Ne no schroude hous so schene as a schepon Þare.
1386 Chaucer Knt.'s T. 1142 The shepne brennynge with the blake smoke.
1401 Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 76 _it makist thou to thi sheep a shepen, and to thi hors a stable.
1425 Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 670/26 Hoc boster, schyppune.
1570 Levins Manip. 61/17 A shyppen, bouile.
1634 Brereton Trav. (Chetham Soc.) 23 Here is a dainty fine shippen_and hay overhead.
1746 J. Collier (Tim Bobbin) View Lanc. Dial. Wks. (1775) 41, I gan o glent into th' Shipp'n.
1857 Waugh Lanc. Life 193 When he had to go into the _shippon' early on a winter's morning.
1859 Dickens Haunted House vii. 44 Atkinson and me will take t'other chap_to th' shippon, and it'll be one piece o' work for to mind them, and the cow.
1881 G. Macdonald Mary Marston xv, The muffled low of a cow from a shippen.
1890 Westmld. Gaz. 8 Nov. 4/2 Small Residence and Pleasure Farm_consisting of convenient House, with Stable and Shippon.
attrib.
1788 New Lond. Mag. 553 Some men who forced the Shippon door by means of iron-crows.
1863 Mrs. Gaskell Sylvia's Lovers xv, The_shippen door_stood open.

[owdhamer]

Shippon, def

[horseshoes]

Thanks one and all:-)))

[dotty.]

we had a shippin on our farm when i was growing up, don't know how long it had been called a shippin when we moved there (Ormskirk Lancashire ) in 1958 but it had a date stone of 1626 over the doorway.
My dad grew up in Cheshire and he called it a shippin, my mum grew up in yorkshire and called it a shippin.
To describe it, it was built of stone, the floor was cobbled down the middle and either side where stalls that were up a step for the milking cows with troughs for feed. the stalls were divided by shaped wooden partitions so that the cows head at the top near the trough couldn't see the cow in the next stall but the partition was sloping towards the lowered centre cobbled part so that the milker could see the cows down the row, the door was a stable door with a bottom and top opening.,the centre cobbled walkway had smooth gullies at each side running the length of the shippin so that the floor could be brished out easily. i kept my ponies in there sometimes in the 1970s but mainly we kept them in the loose box that was built on the back of the old shippin in the 19th century. there was a floor above the shippin and adjacent stable which we called the hay loft and to one sid ein the same stone was the stables and to the other side but added on in the 19th censtury in brick was the traction engine shed with a huge door.