teamster

teamster

See also: Teamster

English

Etymology

From team +‎ -ster.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtim.stɚ/

Noun

teamster (plural teamsters)

1. A person who drives a team of animals (such as horses or oxen).
   • 1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 7, in Riders of the Purple Sage […], New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, OCLC 6868219:

     Dirty boys playing in the ditch, clerks, teamsters, riders, loungers on the comers, ranchers on dusty horses, little girls running errands, and women hurrying to the stores all looked up at her coming with glad eyes.

   • 1985, Cormac McCarthy, chapter 1, in Blood Meridian […] , OCLC 234287599:

     He turned to the man who spoke. He wore long moustaches after the fashion of teamsters and he wore a widebrim hat with a low round crown.

2. (US) A person who drives a cargo truck (see Teamster).

Translations

driver of oxen

Finnish: ajaja (fi), ajuri (fi), ajomies (fi) Serbo-Croatian: volar (sh) m, volarica (sh) f Spanish: tayacán m (Hond.)

person who drives a cargo truck

Finnish: rekkakuski (fi) (colloquial), kuorma-autonkuljettaja Spanish: tronquista m or f

References

• teamster at OneLook Dictionary Search
• teamster in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911