Definitions for dalesman

dalesman dales·man

Spelling: [deylz-muh n]
IPA: /ˈdeɪlz mən/

Dalesman is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 376 anagrams from letters in dalesman (aadelmns).

Definitions for dalesman

noun

  1. a person living in a dale or valley, especially in the northern counties of England.

Origin of dalesman

First recorded in 1760-70; dale + 's1 + man1

Examples for dalesman

It is a country in which sheep are paramount; and every other dalesman is engaged in that profession which is as old as Abel.

At last the carline came to him, and spake softly to him in his ear: "All is free now, dalesman, come thou!"

An Asturian dalesman is commonly reputed capable of driving a nail into a wall with his head.

Or, if dialect poetry must be concerned only with rustic life, was the Craven dalesman to have no voice in the matter?

None but a dalesman, he said, could read Wordsworth aright, or really love him.

The dalesman's broad breast heaved indignantly, and there was a sob in his voice as he replied.

ON the following morning there was a sheep-auction at the dalesman's Daughter.

The dalesman you meet on the highway can tell you all the lore of his parish, giving dates and citing illustrative lays.

My companion talked as only a dalesman can talk—as one whose whole heart is in his subject.

It was in a very wrathful mood that on his way home he turned into the dalesman's Daughter in Silverdale.

Word Value for dalesman
Scrable

11

Words with friends

14

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