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
I also feel very great doubt about names taken from places ending in by, thorp, and toft, in Lincolnshire and the ancient Denelaga, as being Scandinavian, and given at a distinctly later period.
From Surnames as a Science by Robert Ferguson
So then they gat to horse again and rode into the thorp, where men and women stood about to behold them, and made them humble reverence as they passed by.
From The Well at the World's End: a tale by William Morris
So the elders marshalled the little host to their abodes for that night, lodging the more part of them in a big barn on the western outskirt of the thorp.
From The Well at the World's End: a tale by William Morris
Then came they to a thorp of the smallest on a rising ground, from the further end of which they could see the walls and towers of the Burg.
From The Well at the World's End: a tale by William Morris
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