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tractor
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1856, "something that pulls," from Modern Latin tractor "that which draws," agent noun from past participle stem of Latin trahere "to pull, draw" (see tract (n.1)). Earlier used of a quack device consisting of two metal rods which were supposed to relieve ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (label en agriculture) A vehicle used in farms e.g. for pulling farm equipment and preparing the fields. 2 (label en US) A truck (or lorry) for pulling a semi-trailer or trailer. 3 Any piece of machinery, any thing that pulls something. 4 (label en ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A tractor is an engineering vehicle specifically designed to deliver a high tractive effort (or torque ) at slow speeds, for the purposes of hauling a trailer or machinery used in agriculture or construction . Most commonly, the term is used to describe ...
Usage examples of tractor.
She had seated herself on the fender of an autonomic tractor and was examining packages of seeds.
But in order to do this, it is first necessary to conquer the international bourgeoisie, to compel it to give us these tractors.
Both brothers were on the tractor, Raymond standing up behind Harold, who sat behind the wheel driving an ancient red sun-faded Farmall with the canvas wings of the heat houser bolted over the block onto the fenders for protection from the wind, pulling an empty flatbed hay wagon.
An hour later, the train halted at some crummy town: a water tower, a lithomancy pylon, a tractor depot, a straggle of houses.
A service path had been carved into the cliffs on both sides, cheaper than a bridge, marring the natural beauty but making the canyon bottom accessible to tractors.
In essence, it wrenches its target apart by switching from tractor to presser mode in microsecond bursts.
And then, when Captain Pressman gave the order to Will to get them out of here, now, the tractor beam had been engaged.
Switching on the infra-red, they began slowly to climb in single file, the bulldozer going first, the minder cumbrously following, then the quarrier with the operator and the penner aboard, and the two tractors bringing up the rear.
Switching on the infra-red, they began slowly to climb in single file,through the dark, the bulldozer going first, the field-minder cumbrously following, then the quarrier with the operator and the penner aboard, and the tractors bringing up the rear.
Somewhere in the middle of it, while Kemp was supervising the recoupling of the tractors to the other end of the rig it was discovered that McGrath was missing.
The crane prosthesis was already attached to the mount on the front end, and that made it easy to load the tractor with the winch, the sandbagger, the boxes of spare parts, and finally the crate walls.
Titus snorted, looking up from a Lego tank that he was steadily chewing apart, his chubby fingers unable to separate the slippy little bricks he needed for building a tractor.
They all moved forward, swaying from side to side like straphangers on a rocking Underground train as the tractor slid and dragged under the impact of the wind.
Charlotte, they would be joined by such reactionaries as Hugh Challis or Tertius Tully, and instantly, ranging up beside Charlotte, Purvis would be heard announcing that in Russia all actors are cared for by the government like pet rabbits and that any peasant just off the seat of a tractor can act with more disciplined technique than Noel Coward and design scenery more artfully than Oenslager or Bel Geddes.
Copper, Norris and I placed a twenty-five-pound thermite bomb, wired it, and took the connector up the tunnel to the surface, where Blair had the steam tractor waiting.