Team , v. t. To convey or haul with a team; as, to
team lumber. [R.]
Thoreau.
Team (?), v. i. To engage in the
occupation of driving a team of horses, cattle, or the like, as in conveying or hauling lumber, goods, etc.; to be a teamster.
Team (?), n. [OE.
tem, team, AS.
teám, offspring, progeny, race of descendants, family; akin to D. toom
a bridle, LG. toom progeny, team, bridle, G. zaum a bridle, zeugen to beget, Icel. taumr to rein, bridle, Dan. tömme, Sw. töm, and
also to E.
tow to drag, tug to draw. √64. See Tug, and cf. Teem to bear.]
1.
A group of young animals, especially of young ducks; a brood; a litter.
A
team of ducklings about her.
Holland. 2. Hence, a number of animals moving together.
A long team of snowy swans on high.
Dryden.
3. Two or
more horses, oxen, or other beasts harnessed to the same vehicle for drawing, as to a coach, wagon, sled, or the like. "A team of dolphins."
Spenser.
To take his team and till the earth.
Piers Plowman. It happened almost every day that coaches stuck fast, until a
team of cattle could be procured from some neighboring farm to tug them out of the slough.
Macaulay. 4. A number of persons associated together in any work; a gang; especially, a number of persons selected to contend on
one side in
a match, or
a series of
matches, in a cricket, football, rowing,
etc.
5. (Zoöl.)
A flock of wild ducks.
6. (O. Eng. Law) A royalty or privilege granted by royal charter to a lord of a manor, of having, keeping, and judging in his court,
his bondmen, neifes, and
villains, and their offspring, or suit, that is,
goods and chattels, and appurtenances thereto.
Burrill.
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