[f. TEAM sb. or v. + -ER1.] One who drives a team; a teamster.
1840. Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl., III. 391/2. These latter … discharging their contents, and leaving none to be shovelled out by the teamers.
1879. Daily News, 8 April, 3/7. A horse was instantaneously killed by a flying brickbat, but the teamer, who stood near,… escaped uninjured. Ibid. (1895), 4 Dec., 3/7. I let my ten acres of glebe to an industrious fellow—once a ‘teamer’ or team man on a farm near by.
