(Sussex) a small mound, often used in reference to tumuli (mostly restricted to place names).
1815, William Wordsworth, The Excursion, Book Eighth, The Parsonage, lines 95-104, [http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww405.html]
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(UK) a borough or chartered town (now only used as an official subdivision in Scotland).
: With fruitless pains / Might one like me 'now' visit many a tract / Which, in his youth, he trod, and trod again, / A lone pedestrian with a scanty freight, / Wished-for, or welcome, wheresoe'er he came— / Among the tenantry of thorpe …
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