thorp
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of thorp
before 900; Middle English, Old English; cognate with German Dorf, Old Norse thorp village, Gothic thaurp field
Example Sentences
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There were indications that several thousand would take this opportunity to recross the Atlantic—one was returning to Central Europe with $10,000, enough to buy up his native thorp.
From Time Magazine Archive
Dorp, dorp, n. a rare form of thorp, village.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
Then would Sir Godrick have gone his ways, but the poor folk of the thorp prayed him so piteously to abide till the morrow that he had no heart to naysay them.
From The Sundering Flood by Morris, May
But it was none the less the village theatre: the peep-hole through which the villagers obtained a glimpse of many mysteries, and the stage and drop-scene of half the legends of the thorp.
From Drolls From Shadowland by Pearce, J. H. (Joseph Henry)
With silvery clang, by thorp and town, The bells made merry in their spires, Men kissed each other on the street, And music piped to dancing feet The livelong night, by roaring fires!
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864 by Various
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