dalesman en · NOUN
Etymology
From dale + -s- + -man.
Meanings
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A person from the Yorkshire Dales, or sometimes a person from Lakeland.
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.
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:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| dalesmen | Number=Plur | lexicographic |