team
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Noun (2)teams
- a cooperative unit (especially in sports)Synonyms: squadType of unit, social unitKinds football team, defense, basketball team, major-league team, section, A-team, little-league team, baseball team, flying squad, crew +10 moreParts benchMembers stringer
- two or more draft animals that work together to pull somethingType of animal groupKinds relay
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: 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 a 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.— Philemon Holland
2. Hence, a number of animals moving together.
A long team of snowy swans on high.— John 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.” Edmund Spenser
To take his team and till the earth.— Vision of 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.— Thomas Babington 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. Zoology 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. Alexander Mansfield. Burrill
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.
To convey or haul with a team; as, to team lumber. rare Henry David Thoreau
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54