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Thorpe

Thorp \Thorp\, Thorpe \Thorpe\(th[^o]rp), n. [AS. [thorn]orp; akin to OS. & OFries. thorp, D. dorp, G. dorf, Icel. [thorn]orp, Dan. torp, Sw. torp a cottage, a little farm, Goth. [thorn]a['u]rp 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; as, Althorp, Mablethorpe. ``Within a little thorp I staid.''
--Fairfax.

Then thorpe and byre arose in fire.
--Tennyson.

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thorpe

alt. (context dated English) A group of houses in the country; a small village; a hamlet; a dorp. n. (context dated English) A group of houses in the country; a small village; a hamlet; a dorp.

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Thorpe

Thorpe is a variant of the Middle English word thorp, meaning hamlet or small village. It may also refer to one of the following:

Thorpe (surname)

Thorpe is a surname derived from the Middle English word thorp, meaning hamlet or small village. Thorpe is found as the name of many places in England.

Usage examples of "thorpe".

Thorpe were needed back in the field, Chairperson Danza ended the press conference.

He has entered horses for the Thorpe stakes: he will seek to make you enter them, and you told me yourself May and Highflyer were not fit to run this year.

Thorpe belatedly realized, the very fact that he had been looking to divert the comet from Earth guaranteed that the program would choose asteroids with orbits already in the ecliptic.

Merrimac all rich with broken pines and browns, fall, the whistle was just shrilled to end the third quarter in the wintry November field where crowds and me and father stood watching scuffling uproars of semipro afternoons like in the days of old Indian Jim Thorpe, boom, touchdown.

I got a cryptic message from Repasi that you and Thorpe went to Yavapai East without him, but otherwise I had no idea of your steps.

Thorpe talked to his horse, and she meditated, by turns, on broken promises and broken arches, phaetons and false hangings, Tilneys and trap-doors.

From the Thorpes she could learn nothing, for they had been only two days in Bath before they met with Mrs.

Morlands, after sitting an hour with the Thorpes, set off to walk together to Mr.

The younger Miss Thorpes being also dancing, Catherine was left to the mercy of Mrs.

Allen the half-settled scheme of her brother and the Thorpes for the following day.

Thorpe exited, then there was a clunk as Boyle engaged the central locking.

Jesus, he was glad Billy Thorpe had never seen that awful crap up in Steve's room.

He had no more luck than Thorpe with chemical analysis or direct mass sensing, but there were a few unusual spikes in the high-frequency energy spectrum.

Thorpe, however, would see her to her chair, and, till she entered it, continued the same kind of delicate flattery, in spite of her entreating him to have done.

She spoke to Henry Tilney on the subject, regretting his brother's evident partiality for Miss Thorpe, and entreating him to make known her prior engagement.