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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