The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shippon \Ship"pon\, n. A cowhouse; a shippen. [Prov. Eng.]
Bessy would either do fieldwork, or attend to the cows,
the shippon, or churn, or make cheese.
--Dickens.
Wiktionary
n. (context now dialectal English) A cattle-shed.
Wikipedia
Shippon is a village in Oxfordshire, England, 1 mile west of Abingdon. It is the largest village in the civil parish of St Helen Without, in Vale of White Horse District. It was in Berkshire until transferred to Oxfordshire in 1974.
Dalton Barracks are located in the village.
The name was recorded in the Domesday Book as Scipene, meaning "cattle-shed". It was a manor in the large parish of St Helen's, Abingdon, and was held by Abingdon Abbey until the Dissolution in 1538. It was then acquired by the Duchy of Cornwall, which still owns it. Shippon became a separate ecclesiastical parish in 1865. The parish church of St Mary Magdalene was built in 1855 to a design of Gilbert Scott.
Usage examples of "shippon".
He gives us, for example, rememorating, producement, curvate, habitude, rummers, familistic, gloam, dit, shippon and scrab.
He almost reached timberline - but there the weather changed, a damp fog enveloped him, and he spent a couple of hours shivering all alone in a smelly shippon, waiting for the whirling mists to uncover the sun once more.