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  • noun Plural form of teamster.

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Examples

  • Our duty now was to break up any nuclei of concentration that the Rebels might attempt to form, and to guard our foragers -- that is, the teamsters and employee of the Quartermaster's Department -- who were loading grain into wagons and hauling it away.

    Andersonville John McElroy 1887

  • Our duty now was to break up any nuclei of concentration that the Rebels might attempt to form, and to guard our foragers -- that is, the teamsters and employee of the Quartermaster's Department -- who were loading grain into wagons and hauling it away.

    Andersonville — Volume 1 John McElroy 1887

  • These ubiquitous drivers of teams of horses or mules, known as teamsters, occupied the bottom of the chain of army command.

    NYT > Home Page By RONALD S. CODDINGTON 2011

  • There was a man in the offing who belonged with her -- a slender girlish figure of a man in a heavy brown canvas coat such as teamsters wear in the winter.

    Triumph of the Egg, and Other Stories Sherwood Anderson 1908

  • The teamsters 'strike, backed financially by the teamsters of San

    CHAPTER XI 2010

  • The Oakland harness-washers and stablemen, with few exceptions, had gone out with the teamsters.

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  • You haven't lived till you've stood naked in front of half a dozen teamsters.

    iPad, A Missing iPod And The New Season Of ‘Lost’ In Today’s Twitter-Wood » MTV Movies Blog 2010

  • Very cautiously, in the next half hour, Saxon tried to feel out her husband's attitude, to find if he doubted the rightness of the violence he and his brother teamsters committed.

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  • The crowd on the sidewalks and the teamsters on the locked waggons roared encouragement and their own delight.

    SOUTH OF THE SLOT 2010

  • Its demise coincided suspiciously with the rise of the AIDS epidemic, yet still it served its original purpose as a medium for teamsters.

    Eddie's Story TimChambers 2011

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  • Q: How many Teamsters does it take to screw in a light bulb?

    A: Twelve. And it isn't funny, pal.

    April 8, 2008