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dalesman

dalesman noun: a person from the Yorkshire Dales, or sometimes a person from Lakeland.

Noun

dalesman (plural dalesmen)

  1. A person from the Yorkshire Dales, or sometimes a person from Lakeland.
    • And soon my lady put a pretty little tombstone over Tom’s shell in the little churchyard in Vendale, where the old dalesmen all sleep side by side between the lime-stone crags.1863, Charles Kingsley, The Water Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby
    • January 28 2002, A Harry Griffin, The Guardian, A time to kill.
      The dalesmen's sport, fox-hunting on the fells, is gradually returning after its 11-months' foot-and-mouth ban.

Forms of dalesman

pluraldalesmen

Origin of dalesman

From dale + -s- + -man.

Questions about dalesman

What does dalesman mean?
Dalesman means a person from the Yorkshire Dales, or sometimes a person from Lakeland.
What part of speech is dalesman?
Dalesman is a noun.
What is the plural of dalesman?
The plural of dalesman is dalesmen.

Words near dalesman in the dictionary

  1. Dalesandro
  2. Dalesandros
  3. dalesfolk
  4. daleside
  5. dalesides
  6. dalesman
  7. dalesmen
  8. dalespeople
  9. Dalessandro
  10. Dalessandros
  11. Dalessio

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