dalesman

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noun

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.”

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Meanings

noundalesman (plural dalesmen)

plural dalesmen

  1. 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.

    1 more example

    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

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
daleman

Origin

From dale + -s- + -man.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

leadsman
Cite this entry
APA

dalesman. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dalesman

MLA

“dalesman.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dalesman. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dalesman,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dalesman.

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