team

noun, a set of draft animals (COD); see also team of horses, team and sleigh, team and wagon

“At one point, I plowed for different people on the Island, with the team.”

“We went all the way to the Foot. I had the team on there, dollar an hour for me and the team.”

“He’d put the team in and stay ’til midnight or whatever, then come back home on that sleigh.”

“I seen a team come down over there, and then another team come down.”

“If you went to town, you walked in, hooked the team up, and came back out and got the groceries. It’s easy up on the sleigh, eh.”

“We come down, brought the team down. Ruth was the horse, tied her up.”

“That was a hotel that they apparently served meals and liquor and whatever, and that was on the stagecoach trail … They could change horses there and put another fresh team on the stage.”

“I was supposed to be in there to meet them when they come from the shore, and I got in there and there was another team there, and they had them hooked on the front of an old boat, and they swam the team out in the river to get these guys, towing the boat.”

“That was the end of the Stonton Road. I remember the way we went across there. Smiths used to bring a team and drag the cars there to their end of it, and then if Grampa come up, they’d come with the team and down through McGregor’s woods. But you’d have to see it to believe, and ruts like that, cars sliding along the top.”

“In the spring we started, and we put the hydro at the Foot, and I was on there with the team and drew the poles in the field … They’d drop the poles off along wherever they were supposed to be, and then I’d take the team down the inside of the fence through the field and back up and hook a chain on them and pull them in under the fence up to the hole.”

“They’re coming across on the stage, on the Hinckley stage. Tom’s bringing a load in to spend the night here at the inn, The Hitchcock House, and then all of a sudden a kid comes running in and, ‘Pa said you gotta come quick! Aunt Sarah, baby’s coming!’ So Nancy’s hitching up the team ’cause this is what she did. And Tom’s coming in and, ‘Where are the kids?’ and all bedlam, and nobody to take the lines — she’s got sheets out on the line, and he’s got smoke coming out of the stack … And off she goes, chickens and kids all flying after her.”