Teamster

The driver of a team of plough animals. An owner of a team of such animals.

“While the wise team walked slowly in an acre-wide circle, the lines winding around the front standard of the rack, he scattered the hay neatly in little piles. The bawling herd of weaned calves and poor cows trailed after in a long queue, thinking each forkful as it fell into the cold wind must be better than the last but at last settling down to their breakfast when Lynn drove the empty wagon back to the corral. Once the team was unharnessed and left comfortably in their stalls, he was a free man until four o’clock, when he would have to haul another ton or two out and scatter it as before. A simple life—a contented life, even though it was lonesome at times. If it wasn’t for that darned dance Saturday night.”

B. M. Bower, On with the Dance (1934).