dalesman
noun
a person living in a dale or valley, especially in the northern counties of England.
dalesmen
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pluralof dalesman.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The bride and bridegroom were to return in this conveyance, which was to be drawn down the frozen river by a score of young dalesmen shod in steel.
From A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time by Sir Hall Caine
In personal appearance—about which, by the way, he cared little—he was not unlike the dalesmen about him.
From The Lure of the Camera by Charles S. Olcott
Matthew Branthwaite, Monsey Laman, and Reuben Thwaite were among the dozen or more dalesmen who left the procession at this point.
From The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance by Sir Hall Caine
A sturdy, independent youth, thoroughly imbued with the instincts of his northern dalesmen, he had early leaned to a republican sentiment.
From The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill by Sir Leslie Stephen
They are provincial only in the sense that Wordsworth’s dalesmen and women are provincial; that is, they are, in the true sense, universal....
From Krindlesyke by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
