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thorpe

 

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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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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