tractor
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- noun
- /ˈtræktər/
- Jargon
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camión tractor
- I'll probably have to bring a tractor in here and a backhoe and dig all this stuff up.
- tractor trailer
- tractor-trailer truck
- tractor rig
There's cars driving the wrong way down the road and no tractor trailer can carry people on the back of it holding flags.
- There's cars driving the wrong way down the road and no tractor trailer can carry people on the back of it holding flags.
- Two big vans sitting on tractor trailer trucks.
- They're in a steel box, tractor trailer, steel box, black, nowhere in the middle of summer.
Examples
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I explained that both tractors were to drive across the mangrove swamp to the outer beach.
Fiction book (2001) -
-Well keep at it, we'll need this tractor for the project.
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All I need is a new tractor.
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You're the one who gave me lift in the tractor the other day, right?
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Wallace is about to answer when he sees a tractor-trailer pull into the lot.
Fiction book (1999) -
The road to Iraq is lined for miles with tractor-trailer trucks hauling supplies from Turkey.
Academic text (2008) -
There's an overturned tractor-trailer causing a one-hour delay at the Lincoln Tunnel.
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The farmer used the tractor to pull the heavy plow across the field.
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After the storm, we needed a tractor to remove fallen trees from the road.
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He drove the tractor to the market to pick up supplies for the farm.
Compounds
- Slang
A large luxury vehicle like an SUV that people drive in cities and suburbs, not off-road
How Powerful
Surface Forms
Morphology
tractor = tract (opaque) = tract + or
This trucking sense is also built on the same historical tract- root plus -or, but the connection is not recoverable from the everyday meaning of tract.
Etymology
Tractor comes from the root tract, which means 'to pull'. So a road tractor is a 'puller' too, a powerful cab that pulls large trailers on the road.