Definitions for dalesmen

dalesmen dales·man

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

Dalesmen 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 388 anagrams from letters in dalesmen (adeelmns).

Definitions for dalesmen

noun

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

Origin of dalesmen

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

Examples for dalesmen

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for dalesmen
Scrable

11

Words with friends

14

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