Dalesman

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 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."

  2. 2
    a person who lives in the dales of northern England wordnet

Synonyms

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daleman

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"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."

Etymology

From dale + -s- + -man.

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