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 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
Dorp, dorp, n. a rare form of thorp, village.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
Here's my hand: we'll roam together, Far away from thorp and town.
From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 3 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert
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)
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