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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Thorp

/(thôrp)/ · IPA /θɔɹp/
01 n. 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, …
  1. 1.
    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.
    “Then thorpe and byre arose in fire.” — Tennyson.