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
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 William Morris
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 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 May Morris
Dorp, dorp, n. a rare form of thorp, village.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
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