tractor
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tər noun
1.
a powerful motor-driven vehicle with large, heavy treads, used for pulling farm machinery, other vehicles, etc.
2.
Also called truck tractor. a short truck with a driver's cab but no body, designed for hauling a trailer or semitrailer.
3.
something used for drawing or pulling.
4.
Aeronautics.
a.
a propeller mounted at the front of an airplane, thus exerting a pull.
b.
Also called tractor airplane. an airplane with a propeller so mounted.
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| —n | |
| 1. | a motor vehicle used to pull heavy loads, esp farm machinery such as a plough or harvester. It usually has two large rear wheels with deeply treaded tyres |
| 2. | a short motor vehicle with a powerful engine and a driver's cab, used to pull a trailer, as in an articulated lorry |
| 3. | an aircraft with its propeller or propellers mounted in front of the engine |
| [C18: from Late Latin: one who pulls, from trahere to drag] | |
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Word Origin & History
tractor
1856, "something that pulls," earlier used of a quack device consisting of two metal rods which were supposed to relieve rheumatism (1798, in full Perkins's metallic tractor), from M.L. tractor, from stem of L. trahere "to pull, draw" (see tract (1)). Sense of "an engine or
vehicle for pulling wagons or plows" is first recorded 1901, from earlier traction engine (1859). The meaning "powerful truck for pulling a freight trailer" is first found 1926; tractor-trailer is attested from 1949.
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Example sentences
Each system requires half a dozen or more large tractor trailer trucks to carry the radar, fuel supplies and laser.
It's not so long ago that almost everyone was still a farmer, and with a horse or mule instead of a tractor.
The park service's tractor will then take the loads and loads of the pulled plants away for disposal.
Mini flywheels in tractor trailers to handle large power spikes.
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