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Definition
to have a large number of things — especially things that are moving
- Seventy beds keeps he there teeming mothers are wont that they lie for to thole and bring forth bairns hale so God's angel to Mary quoth.Episode 14 — Oxen Of The Sun (4% in)
- ...a time to look at her if he knew she broke off the hand off that little gimcrack statue with her roughness and carelessness before she left that I got that little Italian boy to mend so that you cant see the join for 2 shillings wouldnt even teem the potatoes for you of course shes right not to ruin her hands I noticed he was always talking to her lately at the table explaining things in the paper and she pretending to understand sly of course that comes from his side of the house he...Episode 18 — Penelope (63% in)
There are no more uses of "teem" in Ulysses by James Joyce.
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