Lexicographical Neighbors of Daytale
Literary usage of Daytale
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1851)
"... when the last sheaf had crowned the last stack in their master's hagyard, and
after calling the "harvest home," the daytale-meu and household servants ..."
2. Choice Notes from "Notes and Queries": Folk Lore (1859)
"... when the last sheaf had crowned the last stack in their master's hagyard, and
after calling the "harvest home," the daytale-men and household servants ..."
3. Northumberland Words by Richard Oliver Heslop, Oliver Heslop (1892)
"daytale-MAN, a man employed by the day. " A labourer not engaged by a master for
a certain time, but working for any person who will employ him by the day ..."
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