n. One who or that which teases: as, a teaser of oakum.n. The stoker or fireman in glassworks who attends the furnace.n. A dog used in hunting deer.n. Anything which teases, or causes trouble or annoyance.n. An inferior stallion or ram used to excite mares or ewes, but not allowed to serve them.n. A gull-teaser: a sailors' and fishermen's name of sundry predatory birds of the family Laridæ and subfamily Stercorariinæ, as a skua. Also called boatswain, marlinespike, and dung-hunter. See cuts under skua and Stercorarius.n. A name applied by Brush to a magnetizing coil on the field-magnets of his dynamo, the ends of which were connected to the terminals of the machine so as to form an independent circuit with the coil of the armature; the shunt coil in a compound wound dynamo.