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[archaic] a group of houses in the country; a small village, a hamlet, a dorp; now chiefly occurring in names of places and persons, such as Althorp

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  • Bloom lights the orchard-appleAnd thicket and thorp are merry
  • Outbuildings sprang up around it, and lesser homes, until the thorp could almost be called a village.
  • From his clan Kalava got leasehold of a thorp and good farmland in the Lonna delta, about a day's travel from Sirsu.
  • Brenda James, in The Truth Will Out 2005 shows that it is an anagram of 'the wise thorp hid thy poet, Henry Nevell writer'.
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