Irish. [a. Irish cipín: cf. Gael. cipean, cipein stump, peg, wooden pin.] A stick or dibble used for planting; a short thin stick.
1830–2. Carleton, Traits (1843), I. 133. A good root-growing kippeen.
1841. S. C. Hall, Ireland, I. 122. The tree beside it grew out of the Kippin of the spancel which she carried in her hand.
