torp

torp (plural torps)

1. (informal) Abbreviation of torpedo.
2. (Australian rules football, informal) A torpedo punt.

• (torpedo): torp.

• -trop-, PORT, Port, Port., Prot., port, prot-, trop, trop-, trop.

From Old Norse þorp, from Proto-Germanic *þurpą, whence also German Dorf, German Low German Dörp, Dorp, Daarp, Dutch dorp and English thorp.

torp c (singular definite torpen or torpet, plural indefinite torper)

1. (most commonly) A solitary farm, distant from other settlements.
2. A solitary group of farms, distant from other settlements.

From Old Norse þorp, from Proto-Germanic *þurpą, whence also German Dorf, German Low German Dörp, Dorp, Daarp and Dutch dorp.

torp n (definite singular torpet, indefinite plural torp, definite plural torpa or torpene)

1. (most common) A solitary farm, distant from other settlements.
2. (optional) A solitary group of farms, distant from other settlements.
3. (optional before 1960s) A solitary farm without owned land, renting land from a larger farm nearby.

• torper

• husmannsplass
• småbruk

• “torp” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse þorp.

torp n (definite singular torpet, indefinite plural torp, definite plural torpa)

1. (most common) A solitary farm, distant from other settlements.
2. (optional) A solitary group of farms, distant from other settlements.
3. (optional before 1960s) A solitary farm without owned land, renting land from a larger farm nearby.

• torpar

• husmannsplass
• småbruk

• “torp” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Old Norse þorp, from Proto-Germanic *þurpą, whence also with German Dorf and Dutch dorp.

torp n

1. (before 16th century) A solitary farm, distant from other settlements.
2. (16th century) Officially defined as a very small farm.
3. (17th century to early 20th century) A farm, rented from a larger land owner, where the rent was paid through work on the owner's land (dagsverken); a croft
4. (after the 1940's) A small cottage in the countryside.

• → Finnish: torppa

• torp in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• torp in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• torp in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• torp in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

• port, port.