skippernounbed and board, lodgings19-. etymology: originally a barn; Cant from mid-sixteenth to nineteenth century; possibly a development from Welsh ysgubor ‘a barn’; twentieth century ‘an empty house where one can sleep’; collected by EMcC/PS; attested by BS in TDITAnote:
Canadian Paul Pope (2013) attests this with the same meaning and defines it as ‘lodgings’.