dalesman

English

Etymology

From dale +‎ -s- +‎ -man.

Noun

dalesman (plural dalesmen)

  1. A person from the Yorkshire Dales, or sometimes a person from Lakeland.
    • 1863, Charles Kingsley, The Water Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby:
      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.
    • 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.

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