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n. A person from the Yorkshire Dales, or sometimes a person from Lakeland.

n. One living in a dale; -- a term applied particularly to the inhabitants of the valleys in the north of England, Norway, etc.

n. One living in a dale or valley; specifically, a dweller in the dales of the English and Scottish borders.

n. a person who lives in the dales of northern England

"He might have been a Cumberland dalesman, such were his dignity, and self-possession, and English soberness of manner."

occupier    resident    occupant   

rough-clad    fellows!    hard-handed    roughneck    river-god    black-jack    carolling    land-steward    maid-of-honour    shoat