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Webster 1913 Edition
Thorpe
{
Thorp
,Thorpe
}(thôrp)
, Noun.
[AS.
þorp
; akin to OS. & OFries. thorp
, D. dorp
, G. dorf
, Icel. þorp
, Dan. torp
, Sw. torp
a cottage, a little farm, Goth. þaúrp
a field, and probably to Lith. troba
a building, a house, W. tref
a hamlet, Ir. treabh
a farmed village, a tribe, clan, Gael. treabhair
houses, and perhaps to L. turba
a crowd, mult. Cf. Dorp
.] A group of houses in the country; a small village; a hamlet; a dorp; – now chiefly occurring in names of places and persons;
“Within a little thorp I staid.” as, Al
. thorp
, Mablethorpe
Fairfax.
Then
thorpe
and byre arose in fire. Tennyson.