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/θɔːp/ · noun
(archaic, now chiefly in placenames) A group of houses standing together in the country; a hamlet; a village..
Within a little thorp I staid.
A plague upon the people fell, / A famine after laid them low, / Then thorpe and byre arose in fire, / For on them brake the sudden foe; […]
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Thorp means (archaic, now chiefly in placenames) A group of houses standing together in the country; a hamlet; a village..
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The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Within a little thorp I staid.
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