Webster's 1828 Dictionary
THORP
[L. tribus. ] The primary sense is probably a house, a habitation, from fixedness; hence a hamlet, a village, a tribe; as in rude ages the dwelling of the head of a family was soon surrounded by the houses of his children and descendants. In our language, it occurs now only in names of places and persons.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
THORP; THORPE
Thorp, Thorpe (thôrp ), n. Etym: [AS. þorp; akin to OS. & OFries.thorp, D. dorp, G. dorf, Icel. þorp, Dan. torp, Sw. torp a cottage, a little farm, Goth. þaúrp 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. ]
Defn: 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.
New American Oxford Dictionary
thorp
thorp |THôrp θɔrp |(also thorpe ) ▶noun chiefly Brit. (in place names ) a village or hamlet: Scunthorpe. ORIGIN Old English thorp, throp, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch dorp and German Dorf .
Thorpe, Ian
Thorpe |θɔːp | (b.1982 ), Australian swimmer; full name Ian James Thorpe. He won three gold medals in the 2000 Olympics, and two further golds at the 2004 Olympics.
Thorpe, Jim
Thorpe, Jim |THôrp θɔrp | (1888 –1953 ), US athlete; full name James Francis Thorpe. After starring as an All-American football player at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School 1911 –12, he won Olympic gold medals in the pentathlon and decathlon 1912 and played baseball 1913 –19 and football 1917 –29 professionally. Although he was required to return his Olympic medals because he had played semi-professional baseball in 1909, they were returned to his family in 1984.
Oxford Dictionary
thorp
thorp |θɔːp |(also thorpe ) ▶noun [ in place names ] a village or hamlet: Althorpe. ORIGIN Old English thorp, throp, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch dorp and German Dorf .
Thorpe, Ian
Thorpe |θɔːp | (b.1982 ), Australian swimmer; full name Ian James Thorpe. He won three gold medals in the 2000 Olympics, and two further golds at the 2004 Olympics.
Thorpe, Jim
Thorpe, Jim |THôrp θɔrp | (1888 –1953 ), US athlete; full name James Francis Thorpe. After starring as an All-American football player at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School 1911 –12, he won Olympic gold medals in the pentathlon and decathlon 1912 and played baseball 1913 –19 and football 1917 –29 professionally. Although he was required to return his Olympic medals because he had played semi-professional baseball in 1909, they were returned to his family in 1984.
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