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Answer for the clue "A hamlet ", 5 letters:
thorp

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context archaic now chiefly in placenames English) A group of houses standing together in the country; a hamlet; a village.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Thorp is a Middle English word for a hamlet or small village , from Old English (Anglo-Saxon) / Old Norse þorp (also thorp ). There are many place names in England with the suffix "-thorp" or "-thorpe". Most are in West Yorkshire , East Yorkshire , South ...

Gazetteer Word definitions in Gazetteer
Population (2000): 1536 Housing Units (2000): 759 Land area (2000): 1.325367 sq. miles (3.432685 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 1.325367 sq. miles (3.432685 sq. km) FIPS code: 79625 Located within: Wisconsin ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English ðorp "village, hamlet, farm, estate," reinforced by Old Norse ðorp , both from Proto-Germanic *thurpa- (cognates: Old Frisian thorp , Frisian terp , Middle Dutch, Dutch dorp , German dorf "village," Gothic þaurp "estate, land, field"), probably ...

Usage examples of thorp.

This notion is plausible in a merely hydrostatical point of view, and is supposed to have been adopted by most of the Fellows of Trinity, but certainly not by Thorp, who is one of the most amiable of their number.

Most people assumed that this famous accident occurred during the course of some kind of scientific experiment, a misapprehension that Thorp was happy to encourage.

He wondered if that was true of the men to either side of him, or if, like Thorp, they were immune to the disease No sooner had the thought crossed his mind than the private on his right spun sideways and crashed to the grass, blood spurting from his thigh.

Then he let his hand fall into the strings and they fell a-tinkling sweetly, like unto the song of the winter robin, and at last he lifted his voice and sang: Still now is the stithy this morning unclouded, Nought stirs in the thorp save the yellow-haired maid A-peeling the withy last Candlemas shrouded From the mere where the moorhen now swims unafraid.

CAUSES BY MARK OLSHAKER Synopsis: Ex Navy Seal, Viet nam Veteran Brian Thorp now a noted surgeon at Bethesda Naval Hospital, is draw into investigating the suspicious deaths of other Viet nam Veterans.

Now cometh back one of the fore-riders and draweth rein by Ralph and saith that they are hard on a little thorp under the hanging of the hill that was the beginning of the Down country on that road.

I bid thee come with us, and I will be thy warrant that so far thou shalt have no harm: but when thou hast come so far, and hast seen three very fair cities, besides towns and castles and thorps and strange men, and fair merchandize, God forbid that thou shouldest wend further, and so cast away thy young life for a gay-coloured cloud.

Captain Thorp sent the bluecoats who had surrendered north over the barricade and into captivity.

For that matter, Captain Thorp of the Chicora Guards headed the regiment.

The combination of the Wetherall angle, the Laputa photo op, and the public confrontation with Thorp had rekindled interest in the Stateline site.

If the situation were any less desperate, if a capital offense hadn’t been committed, if the entire key-lock program didn’t hang in the balance, he could have left the Thorps with blank spots in their memories, and he would have felt perfectly safe in spite of that.

If the situation were any less desperate, if a capital offense hadn't been committed, if the entire key-lock program didn't hang in the balance, he could have left the Thorps with blank spots in their memories, and he would have felt perfectly safe in spite of that.