Usage examples for dalesman:

• For centuries it was the greatest amusement of fellsider, dalesman and town dweller, and it was no uncommon thing for men to walk, in the pre- railway days, twenty miles to a wrestling meeting. "Bygone Cumberland and Westmorland" – Daniel Scott

• His North- country accent proclaimed him a Yorkshire dalesman and the White Rose was popular just then in Fleet Street. "The Great Mogul" – Louis Tracy

• 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

• 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