LekhoriLekhoriTo be stocked to overflowing.
But well he knew his teeming pangs were vain, Till Midwife Dryden eas’d his labouring Brain;
To empty.
[The banksman] also puts the full tubs to the weighing machine, and thence to the skreens, upon which he teems the coals. It is also his duty to keep an account of the quantity of coals and stones drawn each day.
To think fit.
Ah, said he, thou hast confessed and bewrayed all, I could teem it to rend thee in pieces
A downpour (of rain).
... a teem of rain that poured down so copiously it ran in surface streamlets over the plains. I may literally say we came to anchor this evening in a sheet of water, the prairie, as far as we could see, presenting the same aqueous[…]
From Middle English temen (“to bear, to support”), from Anglian Old English tēman (“to give birth”) (West Saxon Old English tīeman), from Proto-West Germanic *taumijan (“to bridle”), from Proto-German...
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