dalesman
noun
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noun
Etymology: Etymology tree English dale English -s- English -man English dalesman From dale + -s- + -man.
- 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.”
“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.”