thorp

American  

[thawrp] / θɔrp /

Or thorpe

noun

Archaic.

1. a hamlet; village.

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thorp British  

/ θɔːp /

noun

1. a small village

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Etymology

Origin of thorp

before 900; Middle English, Old English; cognate with German Dorf, Old Norse thorp village, Gothic thaurp field

Example Sentences

There were indications that several thousand would take this opportunity to recross the Atlantic—one was returning to Central Europe with $10,000, enough to buy up his native thorp.

From Time Magazine Archive

Here's my hand: we'll roam together, Far away from thorp and town.

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 3 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert

Once upon a time amidst the mountains and hills and falling streams of a fair land there was a town or thorp in a certain valley. 

From The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale by Morris, William

At the foot of the ridge was a thorp of white houses thatched with straw scattered over a good piece of the plain.

From The Well at the World's End: a tale by Morris, William

But it was none the less the village theatre: the peep-hole through which the villagers obtained a glimpse of many mysteries, and the stage and drop-scene of half the legends of the thorp.

From Drolls From Shadowland by Pearce, J. H. (Joseph Henry)