team

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   two or more draft animals that work together to pull something

   The team of oxen pulled the plough.

2. 2
   noun

   a cooperative unit, especially in sports

   The rugby team had eleven players.

3. 3
   verb

   to form a cooperative unit

   We teamed together for this new project.

4. 4
   noun

   A set of draught animals, such as two horses in front of a carriage.

   It happened almost every day that coaches stuck fast, until a team of cattle could be procured from some neighbouring farm to tug them out of the slough.

5. 5
   noun

   Any group of people involved in the same activity, especially sports or work.

   We need more volunteers for the netball team.

6. 6
   noun

   A group of animals moving together, especially young ducks.

   she will wonder to have a teeme of ducklings about her

7. 7
   noun

   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.

   TEAM, Theam, Tem, Them. Sax. [from tyman, to propagate, to teem.] In old English law. Literally, an offspring, race or generation. 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 villeins, and their offspring or suit. They who had a jurisdiction of this kind, were said to have a court of Theme... constantly used in the old books in connection with toll, in the expression Toll & Team.

8. 8
   noun

   A group of people who favor one side of a binary debate that is divided and lacks a well-established clear consensus.

   As Jan. 1, 2020, approaches, it turns out there is a Team Zero and a Team 1 – those who believe the new decade will begin after midnight on the upcoming New Year's Eve and those who believe the burgeoning celebrations of a new decade (and all the "last decade" retrospectives) are in fact a year early.

Etymology

From Middle English tem, teem, teme, from Old English tēam (“child-bearing, offspring, brood, set of draught animals”), from Proto-West Germanic *taum, from Proto-Germanic *taumaz (“that which draws or pulls”), from Proto-Germanic *taugijaną, *tugōną, *teuhōną, *teuhaną (“to lead, bring, pull, draw”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to pull, lead”). Cognate with Scots team, teem (“a chain, harness”), Saterland Frisian Toom (“bridle; breeding”), West Frisian team (“bridle, team”), Dutch toom (“bridle, reins, flock of birds”), German Low German Toom (“bridle”), German Zaum (“bridle”), Norwegia…