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teamster|ˈtiːmstə(r)|
[f. team n. + -ster.]
1. The driver or owner of a team; a teamer.
1777in New Hampshire Hist. Soc. Coll. (1863) VII. 88 The Committee delivered the Several Teamsters. 1779Boston (Mass.) Town Records 19 Feb. Ibid. 17 Aug., Thomas Chase..had agreed with a Number of Teamsters for the Publick service at the rate of eighteen Shillings a Mile. 1824W. Irving T. Trav. I. 219 Drovers and teamsters who travel that road. 1840J. Buel Farmer's Comp. 144 In using the harrow, the teamster should understand the object, and take care to accomplish it. 1901Census Schedule Instructions, Agricultural labourers should be entered according to the particular work on which they are usually engaged, such as..Teamster on farm.
2. N. Amer. A lorry-driver, a truck-driver; one who drives a truck as his occupation.
1907J. London Iron Heel (1908) x. 182 The teamsters' strike had been broken. 1957Economist 28 Sept. 1024/1 The delegates who are packing their bags this week-end for the convention of the teamsters—as lorry drivers are still called—will also take with them the knowledge that this is likely to be the most momentous meeting in the history of organised labour. 1958Daily Express 29 Aug. 4/2 This type of entertainment is as suspect as the Teamsters' Union. 1978New York 3 Apr. 100/3 The 8,000 sanitationmen represented by a local of the teamsters, usually the most truculent of city unions, are still participating in the coalition talks. |