dalesman
Usage examples for dalesman:
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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