dalesman
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A person from the Yorkshire Dales, or sometimes a person from Lakeland.
Example Sentences
- "And soon my lady put a pretty little tombstone over Tom’s shell in the little churchyard in Vendale, where the old dalesmen all sleep side by side between the lime-stone crags."
- "January 28 2002, A Harry Griffin, The Guardian, A time to kill. The dalesmen's sport, fox-hunting on the fells, is gradually returning after its 11-months' foot-and-mouth ban."