Meaning

1 senses
  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.

    a person who lives in the dales of northern England

Origin

From dale + -s- + -man.

From dale + -s- + -man.

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Forms

plural: dalesmen
Singulardalesman
Pluraldalesmen

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Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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