Tractor Definition

trăktər
tractors
noun
A powerful vehicle with a gasoline or diesel engine and large rear wheels or endless belt treads, used for pulling farm machinery, hauling loads, etc.
Webster's New World
A large, powerful truck with a driver's cab and a fifth wheel, designed to pull a trailer.
Webster's New World
An airplane with its propeller or propellers mounted in front of the engine.
Webster's New World
An airplane having such a propeller.
American Heritage
A toothed mechanism that automatically advances perforated continuous-form paper through a computer printer.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
adjective
Having to do with tractors.
Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Tractor

Noun

Singular:
tractor
Plural:
tractors

Origin of Tractor

  • From Latin tractus, perfect passive participle of trahere (“to pull"), + agent noun suffix -or.

    From Wiktionary

  • From Latin tractus past participle of trahere to draw

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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