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
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 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
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
So they rode on, and nought more befel that day, and they guested in a fair thorp in good enough welcome.
From The Sundering Flood by Morris, May
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