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tractor

[trak-ter]

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noun

a powerful motor-driven vehicle with large, heavy treads, used for pulling farm machinery, other vehicles, etc.

Also called truck tractor. a short truck with a driver's cab but no body, designed for hauling a trailer or semitrailer.

something used for drawing or pulling.

Aeronautics.

a propeller mounted at the front of an airplane, thus exerting a pull.

Also called tractor airplane. an airplane with a propeller so mounted.

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Origin:
1855–60; < Latin trac-, variant stem of trahere to draw, pull + -tor -tor

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Lombard, whose invention of the lag-tread tractor brought him world fame, died at his home here today.

Still other exiles enthusiastically hie themselves to potato bowls and farm festivals and tractor pulls.

It's not so long ago that almost everyone was still a farmer, and with a horse or mule instead of a tractor.

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Lombard, whose invention of the lag-tread tractor brought him world fame, died at his home here today.

Still other exiles enthusiastically hie themselves to potato bowls and farm festivals and tractor pulls.

It's not so long ago that almost everyone was still a farmer, and with a horse or mule instead of a tractor.

The service received reports of cars and a tractor trailer flipped over.

The numbers of large tractor trailer rigs on the secondary.

The men attach one end of the net to the tractor, the other end to another vintage tractor down the beach.

These are people who risk their lives drafting tractor trailers and risk their sanity trying to memorize traffic light patterns.

He declined to say how deeply the tractor issue was dividing the community.

Then a tractor comes and pulls the bus out, while the all-kinds-of-people help.

If a tractor is coming your way the left side of your car is scratched by the hedgerow you narrowly avoid crashing into.

After a dozen years, the crustacean will grow to the size of a tractor tire.

The age of maturity of a farm kid begins when his legs reach the tractor pedals.

Again from tractor supplyThe hand pitcher pump supplies water to the kitchen.

Caterpillar engineers prefer to call it an electric tractor with a diesel-electric hybrid powertrain.

For other energy use, that's some farmer's ability to use a tractor rather than an ox.

The park service's tractor will then take the loads and loads of the pulled plants away for disposal.

When tractor fuel and oil-based fertilisers run out, the only solution is to get people back working on farms.

The bathtub is a galvanized oblong water trough from tractor supply.

There's a tractor parade in the morning, where all the farmers decorate their tractors and drive down the street.

Maybe a few tractor trailer loads of the material would be a good test.

And the collaborative feature allows a second player to help out by firing lasers and tractor beams at anything on the screen.

Ahead of us, a small tractor is pushing dirt around an equally dusty field.

Top soil erosion can be mitigated by replacing the tractor with a mule.

Each system requires half a dozen or more large tractor trailer trucks to carry the radar, fuel supplies and laser.

Tractor trailers packed with critters were leaving the dock bound for processing plants every day.

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World English Dictionary

tractor (ˈtræktə)

—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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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

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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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