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dalesman
Part of speech: NounOne who resides in a district of hills and dales.
Usage examples "dalesman":- And he began the catalogue of those ancient numerals by which the northern dalesman of a hundred years ago were still accustomed to reckon their sheep, words that go back to the very infancy of man. - "The Mating of Lydia", Mrs. Humphry Ward.
- He might have been a Cumberland dalesman, such were his dignity, and self- possession, and English soberness of manner. - "A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches", Sarah Orne Jewett.
- The peasant of the great French plains and the forest was to him what the Cumbrian dalesman was to Wordsworth. - "Studies in Literature", John Morley.