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tractor

noun

  1. engineering vehicle specifically designed to deliver a high tractive effort
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈtɹæktə/ / /ˈtɹæktɚ/

noun

Etymology: Formed from Latin tractus, perfect passive participle of trahere (“to pull”), + agent noun suffix -or.

  1. A vehicle used in farms e.g. for pulling farm equipment and preparing the fields.
  2. A movable coop without a floor to allow for free ranging.
  3. A truck (or lorry) for pulling a semi-trailer or trailer.
  4. Any piece of machinery that pulls something.
  5. An aeroplane where the propeller is located in front of the fuselage.
  6. A British Rail Class 37 locomotive.

    “On the other hand the EE type 3's have offered in a 1750 hp package, probably the most successful loco BR bought. As any crew will tell you a tractor will pull anything anywhere, and yet at the same time they were nippy enough for use on the Anglian mainlines for 20 years.”

    “With a recent email from Mike Tetlow, I found out that there were two other 37s [37252 and 37031] present that day, also shuttling between Cambridge and Kings Lynn. As you correctly observe, the pic of little me shows that I am in a Dutch liveried tractor.”

  7. A metal rod used in tractoration, or Perkinism.

verb

Etymology: Formed from Latin tractus, perfect passive participle of trahere (“to pull”), + agent noun suffix -or.

  1. To prepare (land) with a tractor.
  2. To drive a tractor.
  3. To move with a tractor beam.
  4. To treat by means of tractoration, or Perkinism.