shippons

Noun

shippon (plural shippons)

1. (dialectal) A cattleshed.
   • He almost reached the 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.1972, Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things, McGraw-Hill, published 1972, page 51