Definition of "thorp"

thorp

/θɔːp/

noun
plural thorps
1. (archaic, now chiefly in placenames) A group of houses standing together in the country; a hamlet; a village.
  Quotations
  Within a little thorp I staid.
  1600, [Torquato Tasso], “(please specify |book=1 to 20)”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes
  A plague upon the people fell, / A famine after laid them low, / Then thorpe and byre arose in fire, / For on them brake the sudden foe; […]
  1870, Alfred Tennyson, “The Victim”, in The Holy Grail and Other Poems, London: Strahan and Co., […], stanza I, page 193