Now dial. and techn. Also erron. teamer. [f. TEEM v.2 + -ER1.] One who teems, empties, or unloads.
1667. ? Marvell, in Roxb. Ball. (1883), IV. 546. Weeping to see their sons degenerate: His Romans taking up the teemer’s trade, The Britons jigging it in masquerade.
1866. J. E. Brogden, Provinc. Words Lincolnsh., 204. Teamer, the man who empties the grain from a laden cart to the stack.
1891. Labour Commission Gloss., Teemers, men employed at the top of the coal-shoots by means of which coal is tipped into the hold of the vessel.
1894. Northumbld. Gloss., Teemer, the man at a coal shipping staith who lets the coal out of the waggons.
