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▪ I. teemer1 rare.|ˈtiːmə(r)|
[f. teem v.1 + -er1.]
One who or that which teems or gives birth.
1646H. P. Medit. Seige 69 But such hastie teemers many times bring forth blind whelpes.
▪ II. teemer2 Now dial. and techn.|ˈtiːmə(r)|
Also erron. teamer.
[f. teem v.2 + -er1.]
One who teems, empties, or unloads.
1667? Marvell in Roxb. Ball. (1883) IV. 546 Weeping to see their sons degenerate: His Romans taking up the teemer's trade, The Britons jigging it in masquerade. 1866J. E. Brogden Provinc. Words Lincolnsh. 204 Teamer, the man who empties the grain from a laden cart to the stack. 1891Labour Commission Gloss., Teemers, men employed at the top of the coal-shoots by means of which coal is tipped into the hold of the vessel. 1894Northumbld. Gloss., Teemer, the man at a coal shipping staith who lets the coal out of the waggons. |