Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The amount of work done during the day; work done by a day-laborer. See
daytaler . - Hired by the day.
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Examples
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"A dowly, harden-faced mon, an 'gey hard to bide wi', accordin 'to what all t' day-tale men is sayin '," replied the other.
More Tales of the Ridings Frederic William Moorman 1895
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Her father was dead, all the day-tale men had been called up, and her mother, she assured me, "was that thrang wi 't' hens an 't' cauves, shoo'd no time for milkin 'cows."
Tales of the Ridings Frederic William Moorman 1895
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