noun
definition
(now chiefly in placenames) A group of houses standing together in the country; a hamlet; a village.
Examples of thorp in a Sentence
About 3,000 tons of spent light water reactor fuel have been reprocessed at THORP since 1994.
Born in 1932, Thorp appeared in English films in the 1950s before accepting the role of Alan Turner on Emmerdale in 1982.
On the 8th of March 1372 Wykeham resigned the chancellorship, and Bishop Brantingham of Exeter the treasurership, and laymen were appointed in their places, though Sir Robert Thorp, who became chancellor, was master of Pembroke Hall at Cambridge, and as much a cleric as Wykeham had been when he was dean of St Martin-le-Grand and surveyor of Windsor Castle.
At the present time excellent reproductions of Rowland's speculum gratings are on the market (Thorp, Ives, Wallace), prepared, after a suggestion of Sir David Brewster, by coating the original with a varnish, e.g.