Meanings of northern lads in English

We're two northern lads who help and understand each other on the pitch.

But the participants were stout and sturdy Northern lads, used to hardships and trained to physical endurance.

He and twenty others under the impulse of excitement shouted to the regiment to drop down, and the Northern lads did so.

The man had evidently come to the conclusion that these Northern lads, with the motor-boat, could hardly be hunting fugitive blacks in the swamp.