thorp
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of thorp
before 900; Middle English, Old English; cognate with German Dorf, Old Norse thorp village, Gothic thaurp field
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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
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
Dorp, dorp, n. a rare form of thorp, village.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
Svearek alone had enjoyed hearing him sing, but he was niggardly and his brawling thorp was an endless boredom to a man used to the courts of southern princes.
From The Valor of Cappen Varra by Poul William Anderson
At the foot of the ridge was a thorp of white houses thatched with straw scattered over a good piece of the plain.
From The Well at the World's End: a tale by William Morris
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