dalesman
a person living in a dale or valley, especially in the northern counties of England.
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How to use dalesman in a sentence
Or, if dialect poetry must be concerned only with rustic life, was the Craven dalesman to have no voice in the matter?
Yorkshire Dialect Poems | F.W. MoormanIt is a country in which sheep are paramount; and every other dalesman is engaged in that profession which is as old as Abel.
Bob, Son of Battle | Alfred OllivantIt was in a very wrathful mood that on his way home he turned into the dalesman's Daughter in Silverdale.
Bob, Son of Battle | Alfred OllivantA red-headed dalesman snatched up a sword, but was felled by a blow from the fist of his neighbor.
Sir Nigel | Arthur Conan DoyleRalph recalled some dim memory of the young dalesman asking about his father.
The Shadow of a Crime | Hall Caine
British Dictionary definitions for dalesman
/ (ˈdeɪlzmən) /
a person living in a dale, esp in the dales of N England
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