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  • noun Plural form of thorp.

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Examples

  • SENATOR CHRIS DODD: If only there was visual metaphor to represent the thorps that is the debate process.

    CNN Transcript Aug 26, 2007 2007

  • Many towns and thorps they passed through, and everywhere, when men knew whither they were bound, they letted them all they might in words; but little heed they paid thereto, whereas they were all fixed in their rede that nought was to be done save the finding of their friends, and that their life-days were spoiled if they found them not.

    The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

  • Little brooks and clear streams ran through the vales and woodlands, and tiny thorps and small hamlets snuggled in dells or among the forest's outflung groves and copses.

    Night Arrant Gygax, Gary 1987

  • He saw a thorps and some seal creatures from Largess, the latter looking more comfortable in the dampness of Moth than they would have on most Commonwealth worlds,

    The End of the Matter Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977

  • He saw a thorps and some seal creatures from Largess, the latter looking more comfortable in the dampness of Moth than they would have on most Commonwealth worlds,

    The End of the Matter Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977

  • He saw a thorps and some seal creatures from Largess, the latter looking more comfortable in the dampness of Moth than they would have on most Commonwealth worlds,

    The End Of The Matter Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977

  • He saw a thorps and some seal creatures from Largess, the latter looking more comfortable in the dampness of Moth than they would have on most Commonwealth worlds,

    The End of The Matter Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977

  • He saw a thorps and some seal creatures from Largess, the latter looking more comfortable in the dampness of Moth than they would have on most Commonwealth worlds,

    The End of the Matter Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977

  • The manufacture of rope in the country parts of Dorsetshire was prohibited and restricted to the town of Bridport in 1529; the cloth manufacture which was growing up through the "hamlets, thorps, and villages" in

    An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England Edward Potts Cheyney 1904

  • Many towns and thorps they passed through, and everywhere, when men knew whither they were bound, they letted them all they might in words; but little heed they paid thereto, whereas they were all fixed in their rede that nought was to be done save the finding of their friends, and that their life-days were spoiled if they found them not.

    The Water of the Wondrous Isles William Morris 1865

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