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
With silvery clang, by thorp and town, The bells made merry in their spires, Men kissed each other on the street, And music piped to dancing feet The livelong night, by roaring fires!
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864 by Various
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 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
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 William Morris
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