shippon

shippon
noun /ˈʃɪpən/
A cattle-shed.

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.


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