Dalesman
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Dalesman is a noun meaning A person from the Yorkshire Dales, or sometimes a person from Lakeland.
Meaning
A person from the Yorkshire Dales, or sometimes a person from Lakeland.
Example Sentences
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.
Word Forms
- dalesmen
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include daleswoman, daleman, daleside, dale, dargsman, dally.
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