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dalesman

[ deylz-muhn ]

noun

, plural dales·men.
  1. a person living in a dale or valley, especially in the northern counties of England.


dalesman

/ ˈdeɪlzmən /

noun

  1. a person living in a dale, esp in the dales of N England
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of dalesman1

First recorded in 1760–70; dale + 's 1 + man
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Example Sentences

Would such phonetically-deviant dialect possibly be as incomprehensible in Yorkshire as a dalesman sounded to her?

By this time, doubtless, she was missed, and he had raised the country, flung wide the alarm, set a score moving, fired the dalesmen from Bowness to Ambleside.

The footfalls grew louder, a dalesman passed along the centre of the roadway, his steps died away up the hill.

One dalesman, however, asserted that he passed Hawke not later than one in the afternoon by the church in the centre of the valley.

For centuries it was the greatest amusement of fellsider, dalesman, and town dweller, and it was no uncommon thing for men to walk, in the pre-railway days, twenty miles to a wrestling meeting.

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