tractor
IPA: trˈæktɝ
noun
- (agriculture) A vehicle used in farms e.g. for pulling farm equipment and preparing the fields.
- (agriculture) A movable coop without a floor to allow for free ranging.
- (US) A truck (or lorry) for pulling a semi-trailer or trailer.
- Any piece of machinery that pulls something.
- (aviation) An aeroplane where the propeller is located in front of the fuselage.
- (UK, rail transport) A British Rail Class 37 locomotive.
- (archaic) A metal rod used in tractoration, or Perkinism.
verb
- (transitive, agriculture) To prepare (land) with a tractor.
- (intransitive) To drive a tractor.
- (transitive, science fiction) To move with a tractor beam.
- (transitive, medicine, archaic) To treat by means of tractoration, or Perkinism.
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Examples of "tractor" in Sentences
- This locks to the chassis of the tractor.
- The front axle and the rearmost steer the tractor.
- After the war, Maurice married with a tractor repairman.
- After the war, he married and became a tractor repairman.
- The drugs were found stored in tractor trailers and houses.
- The tractors gained an unsurpassed reputation for durability.
- The further the tractor pulls the sledge, the harder it gets.
- The next step in mechanization was development of the tractor.
- In order to stop the tractor, the driver depressed the clutch.
- The chisel plow does a similar job with the help of a tractor.
- Pneumatic pressure is supplied by the air brake system of the tractor.
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- Who needs tricked-out hydraulic-fitted low riders when these stylish farmers have a bumpin 'tractor?
- The drugs were found stored in tractor trailers and houses wrapped in different colors and labeled with apparently coded phrases and pictures that included the cartoon character Homer Simpson.
- It found that using advanced diesel engines in tractor-trailers could reduce fuel consumption by up to 20 percent by 2020 while hybrid versions of garbage trucks and buses could see a 35 percent cut in fuel use by 2020.
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- I can instantly think of quite a few photo's she has posted in the past of him that take my breath away --- does anyone remember the one of him standing in front of the tractor covered with (I think sulfer) some kind of grey dust, and the tractor is totally covered too.