tractor

Formed from Latin tractus, perfect passive participle of trahere (“to pull”), + agent noun suffix -or.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹæktə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹæktɚ/

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• Rhymes: -æktə(ɹ)

tractor (plural tractors)

1. (agriculture) A vehicle used in farms e.g. for pulling farm equipment and preparing the fields.
2. (agriculture) A movable coop without a floor to allow for free ranging.
3. (US) A truck (or lorry) for pulling a semi-trailer or trailer.
4. Any piece of machinery that pulls something.
5. (aviation) An aeroplane where the propeller is located in front of the fuselage.
6. (UK, rail transport) A British Rail Class 37 locomotive.
   • 1995 May 23, Andrew Cooke, “Re: British Rail: At Last The 1948 Show”, in misc.transport.rail.europe, Usenet‎:

     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.

   • 2000 April 25, Grandpops, “Calling Norfolk tractor bashers with a good brain for numbers! Possible conclusion?”, in uk.railway, Usenet‎:

     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.

   • 2000 May 17, Matt, “Re: "Unfixing" Class 37s and Doncaster control (rant!!)”, in uk.railway, Usenet‎:

     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. (archaic) A metal rod used in tractoration, or Perkinism.

• (aviation): pusher
• (agriculture): traction engine

tractor (third-person singular simple present tractors, present participle tractoring, simple past and past participle tractored)

1. (transitive, agriculture) To prepare (land) with a tractor.
2. (transitive, science fiction) To move with a tractor beam.
3. (transitive, medicine, archaic) To treat by means of tractoration, or Perkinism.

Borrowed from English tractor, formed from Latin tractus + the suffix -or.

tractor m (plural tractores)

1. (agriculture) tractor (farm vehicle)

tractor m (plural tractors)

1. (agriculture) tractor (farm vehicle)

• treure

• “tractor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “tractor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “tractor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “tractor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From English tractor.

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tractor m (plural tractoren or tractors, diminutive tractortje n)

1. tractor (agricultural vehicle)

   Synonym: trekker

• → Caribbean Javanese: trèktor, plèktor

tractor

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of tractō

• tractor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

tractor m (plural tractores)

1. Superseded spelling of trator. (Superseded in Brazil by the 1943 spelling reform and by the Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990 elsewhere. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and as an alternative spelling in Portugal.)

From French tracteur.

tractor n (plural tractoare)

1. tractor

Borrowed from English tractor, formed from Latin tractus, perfect passive participle of trahere (“to pull”), + agent noun suffix -or.

• IPA^(key): /tɾaɡˈtoɾ/ [t̪ɾaɣ̞ˈt̪oɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: trac‧tor

tractor (feminine tractora, masculine plural tractores, feminine plural tractoras)

1. driving

tractor m (plural tractores)

1. tractor

• traer

• “tractor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

From English tractor.

tractor m (plural tractorau or tractors)

1. tractor

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “tractor”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies