DCHP-3

teamster

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1†n.

It a driver of a team of horses or other draft animals.

Quotations

1807
Tailors, tinkers, parsons, pedlars, Sawyers, teamsters, smiths and fiddlers, Rich and poor, or high and low, Hop, and swear--for want of snow.
1964
One may see a visitor with a misty look in his eye; an old blacksmith, top loader, barn boss, teamster, cookie or river hog who has returned to a fleeting glimpse of an era long gone by
2n. — Obs.

one of a team of sled-dogs.

Quotations

1860
Here I had to make an exchange of dogs, my teamsters from Athabaska being used up.