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Shippon
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Ship´pon
n.1.A cowhouse; a shippen.
Bessy would either do fieldwork, or attend to the cows, the shippon, or churn, or make cheese.
- Dickens.
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I've mucked out countless stables and shippons, washed down hundreds of cows before milking, cleaned up after animal births, been shoulder-deep up a cow's rear end pulling out a calf and never evencaught a sniffle.
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