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 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

A team of ducklings about her. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence, a number of animals moving together. [ 1913 Webster ]

A long team of snowy swans on high. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

To take his team and till the earth. Piers Plowman. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Zool.) A flock of wild ducks. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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v. t. To convey or haul with a team; as, to team lumber. [ R. ] Thoreau. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Yoked in, or as in, a team. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Let their teamed fishes softly swim. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act or occupation of driving a team, or of hauling or carrying, as logs, goods, or the like, with a team. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Manuf.) Contract work. [ R. ] Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who drives a team. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Work done by a team, as distinguished from that done by personal labor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Work done by a number of associates, usually each doing a clearly defined portion, but all subordinating personal prominence to the efficiency of the whole; as, the teamwork of a football eleven or a gun crew. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

Is the teamwork system employed, or does one workman make the whole cigar? U. S. Consular Repts. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]