Forms: 1–4 team, tem, (2–7 theam, theme), 3–6 teme, 4 teom(e, tyme, (3–7 them), 4–7 teeme, teem (9 dial.), 6 teyme, 6–7 teame, 7 taime, Sc. thame, 7– team. [OE. téam = OFris. tám, WFris. team, bridle, also progeny, family, line of descendants; OS. tôm, MDu., Du. toom bridle, rein, Du. dial. toom brood, NFris. toom rope, LG. toom draught with the net; OHG., MHG. zoum, Ger. zaum bridle, rein, ON. taumr rein, bridle, rope, cord:—OTeut. *taumoz, prob. from *taugmoz the action of drawing, draught, from ablaut series teuh-, tauh-, tuh-, tug-, to draw, L. dūcĕre to lead: cf. TEE v.1 The original literal sense is not found in OE., but perh. appears later in sense 9; our sense 1 is known also in OFris., and in Dutch dialects. The developed branches II. and III. are only in Eng. German has, in senses 1, 2, 8, 9, the cognate zucht:—OTeut. *tuhtiz.]
I. † 1. The bringing forth of children; child-bearing. Obs. [Cf. MHG. kint ziehen to bring forth children, Ger. viehzucht cattle breeding.]
c. 1000. Ælfric, Hom., in Assmann, Ags. Hom. (1889), 20/159. Þæt eald wif sceole ceorles brucan, þonne heo forwerod byð and teames ætealdod. Ibid., 38/339. His wif … wearð mid … Esau and Iacob, and heo ʓeswac ða teames.
c. 1200. Trin. Coll. Hom., 133. God ches two lif holi men him [Seint iohan baptiste] to fader and to moder, þe weren boðe teames ateald.
b. A family or brood of young animals; now dial. applied to a litter of pigs, a brood of ducks. In quot. a. 1225 fig.
c. 1000. Ælfric, Hom., II. 10. Beon: hi tymað heora team mid clænnysse.
a. 1225. Ancr. R., 336. Drauh togedere al þene team [of sins] under þe moder.
14[?]. Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 579/39. Educamen, a teme of checonn.
1511. MS. Acc. St. John’s Hosp., Canterb. For a teme off ix pygys iiijs iijd.
1767. G. White, Selborne, xi. We have a few teams of ducks, bred in the moors.
1887. Kentish Gloss., Team, a litter of pigs or a brood of ducks.
† 2. Offspring, progeny, issue, family, line of descendants; race, stock; cf. BAIRN-TEAM. Obs.
902. in Thorpe, Charters (1865), 152. Ðreo witeþeowe men … ða me salde bisceop & þa hiwan to ryhtre æhta & hire team.
c. 950. Lindisf. Gosp., Mark xii. 21. Ðe æfterra onfeng ða ilca & dead wæs & ne ðes forleort sed vel team [Vulg. semen].
c. 1000. Ælfric, Saints’ Lives (1885), I. 432. Eall his team wearð ʓewurðod þurh god. Ibid. (c. 1000), Gen. v. 31. Rubric, Hu he Noe bearh and his wife and his teame æt þam miclan flode.
a. 1225. Juliana, 60. Weox swa his team þat ne mahte hit namon tellen.
1297. R. Glouc. (Rolls), 5241. Is foure gode sones woxe uaste ynou, Adelbold & adelbriȝt, adelred & alfred, Þis was a stalwarde tem [v.rr. teme, tyme].
c. 1330. R. Brunne, Chron. Wace (Rolls), 4794. Cassibolan was Androcheus eem, Luddes broþer of þat teem. Ibid. (c. 1330), Chron. (1810), 20. Ethelbert … Adelwolfes broþer, of Egbrihtes team.
c. 1435. Torr. Portugal, 2022. This child is come of gentille teme.
II. 3. A set of draught animals; two or more oxen, horses, dogs, or other animals harnessed to draw together. (Plural, after a numeral, team.)
[c. 825. Vesp. Hymns, v. 34. Mid feoðurtemum [L. cum quadrigis].]
c. 1000. Ælfric, Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 120/32–3. Imus, oxa on þam forman teame. Binus, on þam æfteran teame.
a. 1225. Owl & Night., 776. An hors … drahþ bi sweore [v.r. biuore] grete temes.
c. 1290. St. Lucy, 129, in E. E. Poems (1862), I. 105. Stronge temes he let fecche: of Oxen menie on.
1362. Langl., P. Pl., A. VII. 127. Bote Treuþe schal techen ow his Teome for to dryue. Ibid. (1377), B. IX. 257. Grace gaue Piers a teme [C. XXII. 262 teome] foure gret oxen.
1486. Nottingham Rec., III. 249. Drawyng þerof … with a teme of oxen.
1590. Spenser, F. Q., III. iv. 33. A teme of Dolphins raunged in aray Drew the smooth charett of sad Cymoent.
1621. G. Sandys, Ovid’s Met., xii. A log he tooke Which scarce two teeme could draw.
1633. G. Herbert, Temple, Praise, III. iii. Not all the teams of Albion in a row Can hale or draw it out of doore.
1688. Andros Tracts, III. 89. Greatly disappointed by this loss [of a horse] which was all the Teame he had.
1805. W. Taylor, in Ann. Rev., III. 258. The cannons are … dragged about with a team of eight horses.
1835. Sir J. Ross, Narr. 2nd Voy., xix. 292. Drawn by a team of six good dogs.
1840. Thirlwall, Greece, VII. lviii. 298. A thousand team of cattle conveyed the timber to the coast.
1870. Morris, Earthly Par., II. III. 283. With jingling bit and trace Came the grey team from field.
1903. J. London, Call of the Wild, ii. 54–5. Three more huskies were added to the team inside an hour, making a total of nine.
b. transf. The stock or ‘lot’ of horses (or other beasts) belonging to one owner or stable. dial.
1655. trans. Com. Hist. Francion, VII. 6. I would have laid Pyebald against the best Mare in my Brother-in-Laws teem.
1876. Surrey Gloss., s.v., ‘A good team of cows’ is the general expression for a nice lot of cows.
4. a. fig. Applied to persons drawing together.
1614. B. Jonson, Barth. Fair, II. v. ’Twere like falling into a whole Shire of butter: they had need be a teeme of Dutchmen, should draw him out.
1668. Bp. Hopkins, Serm., Vanity (1685), 123. They are so enslaved to the work of the devil, that he puts them into his team, makes them draw and strain for their iniquities.
1748. Richardson, Clarissa (1811), VII. x. 61. I will add a string of bells to it, to complete thee for the fore-horse of the idiot team.
1837. Carlyle, Fr. Rev., I. III. vi. When a team of Twenty-five Millions begins rearing, what is Loménie’s whip?
b. transf. A number of persons associated in some joint action; now esp. a definite number of persons forming a side in a match, e.g., in a football match or a ‘tug-of-war’; in Shoe-making, etc., a company of workmen each of whom performs one operation in completing a process.
a. 1529. ? Skelton, Vox Populi, 204. All theise men goo to wracke, That are the body and the staye Of your graces realme allwaye…. Thei must be … Your streinghe and your teme, For to defende your realme.
1622. Massinger & Dekker, Virg. Martyr, IV. ii. Hear me, my little team of villains, hear me.
1644–7. Cleveland, Char. Lond. Diurn., 6. Beleeve him [Cromwell] as he whistles to his Cambridge Teeme of Committee-men.
1859. Dickens, T. Two Cities, I. ii. The team had capitulated and returned to their duty.
1885. Manch. Exam., 10 July, 5/1. The Northern [cricket] team, batting first, were disposed of for 192.
1888. Daily News, 20 July, 7/3. ‘A team [in boot-making] here would consist of three men, while in America there would be six in ‘a team.’
1902. Westm. Gaz., 28 April, 5/2. They were beaten by a [football] team superior to themselves. Ibid. The two teams took up their positions.
1902. Monthly Rev., VII. April, 9. The unenviable position of a team of slaves compelled to stand up at football against an overwhelming combination of their owners.
5. Two or more beasts, or a single beast, along with the vehicle which they draw; a horse and cart, or wagon with two horses (now dial.); also, U.S. local, a cart, wagon, or other vehicle of burden for one horse (single team) or two horses (double team).
1641. Boston (U.S.) Town Records, 27 Sept. The Richer … Inhabitants shall afford three dayes’ worke of one man, except such as have Teames.
1675. 3 Inhumane Murthers, 2. He being out with his Father-in-Law’s Teame … to fetch Coals.
1688. R. Holme, Armoury, III. 339/2. A Waine, or Oxe Taime, when drawn by Oxen, and hath a Waine Cop.
1787. (March 1) Massachusetts Statute (Bridge-toll). Toll … for each team drawn by more than one beast, nine pence. Ibid. (1806), (March 4). Toll … for each cart, sled, sleigh, or other team of burthen, drawn by one beast, sixteen cents.
1798. Sporting Mag., XI. 48. He was returning from Cowley with a loaded team.
1898. Boston Even. Transcript, 23 Feb., 16/3. To make the hill less perilous to the poor horses obliged to drag teams up or down it.
† b. A team-load. Obs. rare.
1789. Trans. Soc. Arts, VII. 36. The quantity of manure was two teams of dung to each pit, value three pence per team.
6. A flock of wild ducks or other birds flying in a line or string.
1688. R. Holme, Armoury, II. xiii. 311/1. Team of ducks.
1697. Dryden, Æneid, VII. 965. Like a long team of snowy swans on high, Which clap their wings, and cleave the liquid sky.
1726. Pope, Odyss., XIX. 627. A team of twenty geese (a snow-white train!).
1720. Humourist, Ded. 5. [He] took a trip to your Dominions upon a Team of wild Geese.
1848. H. W. Herbert, Field Sports, II. App. B. 334. Duck, a team,—smaller number, a plump.
1871. ‘Stonehenge,’ Brit. Sports, I. ix. § 1. Wild-fowl Nomencl. … A ‘team’ of ducks (when in the air).
7. Phrases. a. Naval: see quots.
1829. Marryat, F. Mildmay, viii. Nothing can be more dull and monotonous than a blockading cruize ‘in the team,’ as we call it; that is, the ships of the line stationed to watch an enemy.
1867. Smyth, Sailor’s Word-bk., s.v., Ships blockading a port, being generally formed in a line, are said to be ‘in the team.’
† b. To lay in team: to couple, join together.
13[?]. E. E. Allit. P., C. 37. I schall me poruay pacyence, & play me with boþe; For in þe tyxte, þere þyse two arn in teme layde, Hit arne fettled in on forme, þe forme and þe laste.
III. In Anglo-Saxon Law.
(In this sense recorded only in Eng.; but in MHG. the cognate vb. ziehen was used to express the bringing of an action, and the action is expressed by zug in Gewährzug.)
8. In a suit for the recovery of goods alleged to have been stolen, the action or procedure by which the holder transferred or referred it back to a third person (generally the party from whom he received the goods) to defend the title to them; vouching to warranty. Obs. exc. Hist.
In med. (Anglo) L. advocatio ad warantum; in Anglo-Fr. revoche garaunt; called by Liebermann Gewährzug, by Schmid Gewährschaftszug (Gesetze Glossar s.v.).
a. 800. Laws Hlothhære & Eadric (c. 685), c. 16. Þonne tæme he to wic to cyngæs sele to þam mæn þe him sealde, ʓif he þane wite and æt þam teame ʓebrengen mæʓe.
901–24. Laws Eadweard, I. c. 1 § 1. And ʓif hwa butan porte ceapiʓe, ðonne sy he cyninges oferhyrnesse scyldiʓ; and gange se team þeah forð, oð þæt man wite, hwær he oðstande.
946–c. 961. Laws Edgar, I. c. 4. Buton þara oðer hæbbe, nele him mon nænne team [Lat. text cenningam] ʓeþafian.
960–75. in Earle, Land Charters, 201. Ða tymde Wulfstan hine to Æðelstane æt Sunnanbyrʓ. Ða cende he tem, let ðone forberstan, forbeh ðone andaʓen.
997[?]. Laws Æthelred, III. c. 6. Ælc team and ælc ordal beo on þæs kyninges byriʓ.
1027–34. Laws Cnut, II. c. 24 § 1. And ʓyf … he þyllice ʓewitnesse næbbe, ne beo þær nan team, ac aʓyfe man þam aʓenfriʓan his aʓen.
1130–5. Laws Edw. Conf., c. 22 § 3. Team [v.rr. Theam, Them]: quod, si aliquis aliquid interciebatur [v.r. intertietur] super aliquem, et ipse non poterit warantum suum habere, erit foresfactura et iusticia; similiter de calumpniatore, si deficiebat.
12[?]. Leges Burgorum, c. 12, in Scot. Stat. (1844), I. 335. Per legem burgi se defendet nisi sit de prodicione vel de them [c. 1400 transl. thruch lauch of burgh he sall were hym bot gil it be of tresoun or of theme].
1387. Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), II. 95. [see also in c] Theam, Frensche, reuoche garant [1433–50 trans. Higden, ibid., Thean, that is, to lawde the auctor, in Frenche, reuouche g[a]rante; orig. Theam [v.r. them], id est, laudare auctorem; Gallice, reuoucher garaunt].
1628. Coke [see c].
1900. A. Lang, Hist. Scotl., I. vi. 148.
b. The right or prerogative of jurisdiction in a suit of téam, together with the fees and profits thence accruing; from the 11th c. usually included in charters granting land (in which it regularly followed toll, esp. in the formula with sac and soc, toll and tean, infangthief, etc.).
Saca and socue (without toll and team) is first found in a charter of 1020 or later (see INFANGTHIEF); toll and team (alone) is known first in a charter a. 1023: the formula combining them appears just after the accession of Edward the Confessor, 1042, and occurs in numerous charters ascribed to him, mostly existing only in later copies. It occurs also in the Laws of Wm. I. and Henry I. The meaning of team was still known when the ‘Laws of Edw. the Confessor’ were compiled c. 1130–5 (see above). After the 12th c. it was an obsolete term, the meaning of which was largely a matter of conjecture, and was generally mistaken: see c.
1066. Charter Edw. Conf., in Thorpe, Charters (1865), 405. Donavi … abbati Eadwino … consuetudinem que dicitur teames.
a. 1400. in Scot. Stat. (1844), I. 742. De Curia de theme.
1664. Spelman, Gloss., 533, s.v. Team al. Theam, Theam significare videtur jurisdictionem cognoscendi in Curiâ suâ de advocationibus, sive intertiatis; hoc est … de vocatis ad Warrantiam.
1895. Pollack & Maitland, Hist. Eng. Law, II. 157, note. The team of the Anglo-Norman charters seems to be the right to hold a court into which foreigners, i. e. persons not resident within the jurisdiction, may be vouched.
1017–23. Charter of Ælfweard Abbot (Earle Land Charters, 236), And toll and team sy aʓifen into þam mynstre.
1046–60. Charter of Ealdred Bishop (Kemble No. 805). Ut habeant et possideant iure aecclesiastico perpetua haereditate, cum saca et socne, tolle et teame, reditibus et campis [etc.].
1046–60. Charter Edw. Conf. (Kemble No. 829, later copy). And icc an heom eft alswa ðat hi habben ðarto sacc and socne, toll and team, infangeneðef and flemenesfermð [etc.].
a 1066. Charter (Kemble No. 843) [see INFANGTHIEF].
1090–1135. Laws of Wm. I., c. 2 § 3. E cil francs hom ki ad e sache e soche e toll e tem e infangentheof, se il est enplaidé [etc.].
1114–8. Laws Hen. I., c. 20 § 2. Archiepiscopi, episcopi, comites … sacam et socnam habent, tol et theam et infongentheaf.
12[?]. Reg. Maj., I. ii., in Scot. Stat. (1844), I. App. i. 234. Qui habent et tenent terras suas cum soko et sako furca ci fossa toll et them et infangandthefe et vtfangandthefe. [Skene trans. Judges … quha hes power to hald their courts, with sock, sack, gallous, and pit, toll, and thame, infang-thief, and outfang-thief.]
1657. Sir W. Mure, Hist. Rowallane, Wks. (S. T. S.), II. 241. The Mures … being free Barones yrof, holding in cheife of the crowne, infeft cum furca et fossa, sock et sack, thole et theam, infang theif et outfang theif.
1871. Freeman, Norm. Conq., IV. xviii. 208. One among them, whether by seniority or by hereditary right, further enjoyed the profitable privileges of toll and team.
¶ c. By the end of the 12th c., the process of téam being obsolete, the meaning of the word was to a great extent forgotten. Legal writers erroneously explained it from sense 2, as ‘the property of the lord in the team or offspring and posterity of his serfs.’
This appears in a 12–13th-c. Latin version of a charter of Edward the Confessor, whence it was regularly repeated by later writers, some of whom, as Higden, Rastall, Skene, and Coke, offer both explanations.
1200–25. Latin version of Charter of Edw. Conf. (Kemble No. 843). [… saca and socna, toll and team] cum priuilegio habendi totam suorum seruorum propaginem.
c. 1250. Expositio Vocab., in Placita de Quo Warranto (1818), 275/2. Them, aver progeny de vos humes.
c. 1290. Fleta, I. xlvii. § 9. Them, acquietantiam amerciamentorum sequelæ propriorum suorum.
1387. Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), II. 95. [see also in a] Somtyme Theam is i-cleped þe sewte of bonde men [orig. Them … quandoque dicitur sequela nativorum].
1579. Expos. Terms Law, 177 b. Them, that is that you shall haue all ye generations of your Villaines wyth ther suites & cattel wheresoeuer they shall be found in England.
1597. Skene, De Verb. Sign., Theme, is power to haue servandes and slaues, quhilk ar called nativi, bondi, villani, and all Barronnes infeft with Theme, hes the same power: For vnto them all their bond-men, their bairnes, gudes, and geare properly perteinis, swa that they may dispone thereupon at their pleasure.
1628. Coke, On Litt., II. xi. § 172. 116. Theme (sometime written Theame corruptly) is an old Saxon word, and signifieth Potestatem habendi in nativos sive villanos cum eorum sequelis, terris, bonis & catallis. But Teame, sometime corruptly written Theam,… is also an old Saxon word and signifieth where a man cannot produce his Warrant of that which he bought according to his Voucher.
1895. Pollock & Maitland, Hist. Eng. Law, I. 566. Then [13th c.] team is taken to mean the brood, the offspring, the ‘sequela’ of one’s villeins; but this we may be sure is a mistake.
¶ d. At other times team was app. taken as a mere complement to toll, and was evidently thought to be some kind of impost.
1456. Sir G. Haye, Law Arms (S.T.S.), 238. Pilgrymes … suld nouthir pay toll na teme, aucht na custume, na payage, quhill thai ar on thair voyage.
IV. Later senses related to II.
(But sense 9 may represent an Anglicizing of ON. taumr. In that sense also, apparently sometimes associated with L. tēmo a beam, pole, tongue of a plough, carriage, cart, etc.)
9. Part of the gear by which oxen or horses were harnessed to a plough, harrow, or wain. In mod. dialect use, ‘a chain to which oxen are yoked in lieu of a pole’ (Eng. Dial. Dict.); ‘in plough equipment, the main or leading chain, by which the whole of the oxen or horses drag the implement’ (F. T. Elworthy). Foot-team, the foot-chain of a plough.
c. 1350. Nominale Gall.-Angl., 858. Trecters et temons, Plowestryngges and tem.
c. 1425. Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 665/20. Nomina pertinencia ad carectariam…. Hoc plaustrum, wayne. Hec tema, teme. Hec torques, wythe.
1483. Cath. Angl., 379/2. A Teme, temo.
1523. Fitzherb., Husb., § 4. Yf he wyll haue his plough to go a narowe forowe … he setteth his fote-teame in the nycke nexte to the ploughe-beame. Ibid., § 15. An oxe-harowe … the formes[t] slote must be bygger than the other, bycause the fore-teame shall be fastened to the same with a shakyll, or a withe to drawe by.
1530. Palsgr., 279/2. Teme of a plough or oxen, atellee.
c. 1540. Inv. Monast. Lylleshull, in Archæologia, XLIII. 209. iij waynes with themes and other thyngys necessary.
1570. Levins, Manip., 208/17. A Teame, cheane, temo, onis.
1575. Richmond Wills (Surtees), 255. ij yooks furnysshed viijd, ij teymes, j horse draught, j buck shackill, j plewghryng, ij paire toggwethes, ij axill nayles iijs. iiijd.
1605–6. in N. Riding Rec. (1884), I. 27. Duos torques ferreos, Angl. Iron horse-teames.
1616. Surfl. & Markh., Country Farme, 533. When they draw two and two together in the bearegeares,… then there is needfull the plow-cleuise, and teame [etc.].
1788. W. Marshall, Yorksh. Gloss., Team, an ox-chain, passing from yoke to yoke.
1889. N. W. Linc. Gloss., Team,… (2) harness for a draught of horses or oxen.
10. dial. A chain (generally).
1828. Craven Gloss., Team, a strong iron chain.
1840. Spurdens, Suppl. to Forby’s Voc. E. Anglia, s.v., A string or chain of sausages is called ‘a team of links.’
1904. Eng. Dial. Dict., Team … an iron chain usually with a ring at one end and hook at the other. Used for putting round stones to fasten the crane chain to when lifting. (W. Yorksh.)
V. 11. attrib. and Comb., as, in sense 3, team-beast, -driving, -horse, -labor, -length, -master, -plough; in sense 4 b, team-game, -match, -play, -race, -system, -training; also team-band, a fastening for securing the drawing-gear to the plow, etc.; team-boat, a boat drawn or propelled by horse-power; † team-land, = PLOUGH-LAND; team-man (also teamsman), a teamster; team-railway, a railway system worked by horse-power (Ogilvie, 1882); team-shovel: see quot.; † team-ware, (a) a team of horses, etc.; (b) = team-land; team-work, (a) work done with a team of beasts; (b) the combined action of a team of players, etc.; (c) work done by a team of operatives.
1808. Vancouver, Agric. Devon, 115. A swing-plough with a beam … at the end of this beam is occasionally fastened a graduated iron to which the *team-band is affixed.
1847–78. Halliwell, Team-bands, the same as Start-chains.
1573–80. Baret, Alv., T 96. A *Teame beast, euerie beast that draweth or beareth burdens.
1818. Pict. New York, 222. A *team or horse boat sails … to Brooklyn every quarter of an hour.
1820. Boston (U.S.) Daily Advert., 26 April, 2/4. A team-boat propelled by twenty-five horses.
1867. Smyth, Sailor’s Word-bk., Team-boat, a ferry-boat worked with horses by paddle-wheel propulsion.
1895. Forum (N.Y.), May, 378. The ‘team-boat,’ or ferry-boat propelled by horse power,… ran for some time in competition with steam ferries.
1893. Westm. Gaz., 3 Feb., 10/3. As recently as last week he was … able to give lessons in *team-driving.
1907. Daily Chron., 18 Jan., 9/5. The very essence of all *team games is unity of action.
1698. Fryer, Acc. E. India & P., 58. Such Trappings as our finest *Team-Horses in England wear.
1778. [W. Marshall], Minutes Agric., Digest, 18. Sheep are profitable … because they save, considerably, the expence of *team-labour.
1387. Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), VIII. 177. Iohn … toke anon tribute of everiche *teme lond [orig. kyda, id est carucata] in Engelond þre schelynges.
1627. Speed, England, xxviii. § 3. In the Booke of Domesday Caruca—the Teame-land—was in quantitie of Acres proportioned to the qualitie of Soile.
1904. N. & Q., 10th Ser. I. 354/2. The extent of the plough or teamland.
1387. Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), VII. 225. I-leide þre *teme lengþe from þe stok.
1867. Morley, Burke, vi. 56. He would talk of … the turnips, and the hay, with the *team-men and the farm-bailiff.
1909. Daily News, 1 March, 12. Their demands are for an increase of wages of *teamsmen to 28s.
1894. Westm. Gaz., 13 Dec., 7/2. The Manhattan Chess Club has sent by mail to the British Chess Club a challenge for a *team match of five boards, to occupy one sitting, the moves being cabled.
1895. Outing (U.S.), XXVII. 247. Our game [Canadian football] … abounding in combined skill and *team play unknown to English experts.
1805. Dickson, Pract. Agric., I. 346. The breast-spade or common *team-plough … will be found preferable.
1877. Knight, Dict. Mech., *Team-shovel, an earth-scraper. A scoop drawn by horses or oxen.
1895. Daily News, 15 April, 2/3. The *‘team system’ [in boot-making] is also strongly resisted, as tantamount to a decline in the remuneration.
1567. Golding, Ovid’s Met., V. (1593), 125. His sacred *teeme-ware through the aire to drive abroad agen.
1577. Harrison, England, I. viii., in Holinshed, I. 12/2. 600 families which are all one with Hidelandes, Plowghlandes, Carrucates, or Temewares.
1796. W. Pitt, View Agric. Stafford, iv. § 2. 26. It is very common to bind the tenant to do one day’s *team-work in the year for his landlord.
1828. Webster, Team-work, work done by a team, as distinguished from personal labor. New England.
1886. S. W. Linc. Gloss., Team-work, work done with wagon and horses; a regular item in a way-warden’s Account Book.
1887. Mrs. H. Campbell, Prisoners of Poverty, ii. 26 (Funk). What is known as ‘team work,’ flaps [of shirts] being done by one, bosoms by another, and so on.
Mod. U.S. The team-work of the [base-ball] nine is excellent.
