tractor
nounverbcommon in dialogue
- United Kingdom//ˈtɹæktə//
- United States//ˈtɹæktɚ//
A vehicle used in farms e.g. for pulling farm equipment and preparing the fields.
noun
- 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.
EWS are also denying any rumours of tractors going to Spain, then again they denyed the rumours of tractors going to France until the contract was signed!
- 7
archaicA metal rod used in tractoration, or Perkinism.
Etymology
Formed from Latin tractus, perfect passive participle of trahere (“to pull”), + agent noun suffix -or.
verb
- 1
To prepare (land) with a tractor.
- 2
To drive a tractor.
- 3
To move with a tractor beam.
- 4
archaicTo treat by means of tractoration, or Perkinism.
Forms
- plural
- tractors
- past tense
- tractored
- past participle
- tractored
- present participle
- tractoring
- third person singular
- tractors
tractor · A vehicle used in farms e.g. for pulling farm equipment and preparing the fields.
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