thorp

American  

[thawrp] / θɔrp /

Or thorpe

noun

Archaic.

1. a hamlet; village.

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thorp British  

/ θɔːp /

noun

1. a small village

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Etymology

Origin of thorp

before 900; Middle English, Old English; cognate with German Dorf, Old Norse thorp village, Gothic thaurp field

Example Sentences

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

Here's my hand: we'll roam together,   Far away from thorp and town.

From Poems by Cawein, Madison Julius

Herewith they were come to a little thorp where the way sundered, for the highway went on to Whitwall, and a byway turned off to Swevenham.

From The Well at the World's End: a tale by Morris, William

The spearmen of the thorp did not fail them, and numbered twenty and three all told.

From The Well at the World's End: a tale by Morris, William

They dwelt not in any fenced town or thorp, but their homesteads were scattered about as was handy for water and shelter. 

From The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale by Morris, William