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English Dictionary: Team by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
team
n
  1. a cooperative unit (especially in sports) [syn: team, squad]
  2. two or more draft animals that work together to pull something
v
  1. form a team; "We teamed up for this new project" [syn: team, team up]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Team \Team\, v. t.
      To convey or haul with a team; as, to team lumber. [R.]
      --Thoreau.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Team \Team\, n. [OE. tem, team, AS. te[a0]m, 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 to rein, bridle, Dan. t[94]mme, Sw.
      t[94]m, and also to E. tow to drag, tug to draw. [fb]64. See
      {Tug}, and cf. {Teem} to bear.]
      1. A group of young animals, especially of young ducks; a
            brood; a litter.
  
                     A team of ducklings about her.            --Holland.
  
      2. Hence, a number of animals moving together.
  
                     A long team of snowy swans on high.   --Dryden.
  
      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. [bd]A team of dolphins.[b8] --Spenser.
  
                     To take his team and till the earth.   --Piers
                                                                              Plowman.
  
                     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.
  
      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.
  
      5. (Zo[94]l.) A flock of wild ducks.
  
      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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Team \Team\, 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.
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