Middle English Dictionary Entry
thorp n.
Entry Info
| Forms | thorp n. Also thorpe, thorpt, thrō̆p(e, (early) þruppe & (in names) thoroph, thurp, therop, throup, threp, torp(f, tourp, turp, trop(e, -drop, yrap & (error) thope; gen. throp(p)es; pl. thorp(e)s, etc. & thropus, throupis, thruhup(p)is. |
| Etymology | OE þorp, þrop & (esp. in names) ON: cp. OI þorp. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A village, hamlet, or farmstead; (b) ?a place where many ways meet, crossroads; (c) in surnames and place names [see Smith PNElem.2.205-12, 214-16 & Ekwall Dict.EPN 446-8].
Associated quotations
a
- a1121 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.963 : Ic..gife..freodom Sancti Petres mynstre Medeshamstede of kyng, and of biscop, and ealle þa þorpes þe ðærto lin.
- a1200 Trin.Hom.(Trin-C B.14.52)89 : Þo þe com to bethfage, Swo hatte þe þrop þe preste one wunien.
- a1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)2141 : Loke þat hirdemen..seche eche cite and alle smale þropes.
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)1.115 : In þat orcheȝerde Crist was i-take, by þe whiche was a þrope [Higd.(2): litelle towne; L villula] þat hiȝt Gethsemany.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Pars.(Manly-Rickert)I.12 : We were entryng at a thropes [vr. throppes] ende.
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.Cl.(Manly-Rickert)E.199 : Ther stood a throop [vrr. thorpt, throope]..In which that poure folk of that village Hadden hir bestes and hir herbergage.
- c1400(a1376) PPl.A(1) (Trin-C R.3.14)2.45 : Was piȝt vp a pauyloun..And ten þousand of tentis..For lerid, for lewid, for laboureris of þropis [vrr. þrepis; werkes].
- c1400(?c1380) Cleanness (Nero A.10)1178 : He pursued into Palastyn wyth proude men mony, And þer he wast wyth werre þe wones of þorpes.
- c1400(?a1387) PPl.C (Hnt HM 137)1.219 : Ȝut mete me more of mene and of ryche, As barouns and burgeis and bonde-men of þroupes [vr. þropus].
- a1450(?c1421) Lydg.ST (Arun 119)3589 : They..Brente townes, thorpes [vrr. thruhuppis, thruhupys], and vilages.
- a1425 Dial.Reason & A.(Cmb Ii.6.39)11/15 : I whas born in a litil þorpe.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)492 : Thope [read: Thorpe], or thrope, lytylle towne: Oppidum.
- c1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)1803 : In thorps & in many thede þar ȝe þurȝe ride.
- a1475 Godstow Reg.(Rwl B.408)458/8 : The said abbesse and couent yaf..to the said Iohn..the mansion, tyftis of roddis, thorptis or croftis, and medis.
- a1500 Ho that lust (Clare 5)3 : Be he of cyte, toun, or thrope, Pray he for my lady scrope.
b
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)267 : Brutus..ferde to þan wode to þan wilderne, to þan ilke weie þe he ful ȝeare wuste þat þe king mid his ferde forð sculde iwenden..þre þusund mid him ilead to þære þruppe.
c
- (1150) EPNSoc.30 (West Riding Yks.)19 : Thorp.
- (1158) in Reaney Dict.Br.Surnames347 : William de Torp.
- (1177) in Reaney Dict.Br.Surnames357 : Robert de Turp.
- (1179) EPNSoc.12 (Ess.)352 : Torpf.
- (1199) EPNSoc.14 (East Riding Yks.& York)178 : Grymthorpe.
- (1221) EPNSoc.38 (Glo.)36 : Hatherop.
- (1247) EPNSoc.10 (Nhp.)152 : Rutheristorp.
- (1256) EPNSoc.39 (Glo.)35 : La Trop.
- (1258) Close R.Hen.III206 : Robertus le Thurp.
- (1274-5) Hundred R.Tower 2265 : Ad. de la Thropp'.
- (1285) EPNSoc.39 (Glo.)35 : Yrap.
- (1300) EPNSoc.4 (Wor.)283 : Huntingdrop.
- (1305) EPNSoc.39 (Glo.)35 : Threp.
- (1327) Sub.R.Sus.in Sus.RS 10126 : Simone de Thorp.
- (1327) in Reaney Dict.Br.Surnames347 : William in le Thorp.
- (1332) in Reaney Dict.Br.Surnames357 : Adam Tourpp.
- (1345) EPNSoc.10 (Nhp.)61 : Thropmundevile.
- (1373) EPNSoc.10 (Nhp.)151 : Retheresthroup.
- (1398) EPNSoc.4 (Wor.)283 : Hundingtrope.
- (1407) EPNSoc.39 (Glo.)35 : Throop.
- (1428) EPNSoc.30 (West Riding Yks.)151 : Netherthorpe.
- (1469) Paston (EETS)1.549 : Rychard Call hathe delyueryd me..an endentur of letyng of þe maner of Saxthorp.
- (1480) EPNSoc.30 (West Riding Yks.)151 : Thoroph Rekenyll.