English

A tractor (farm vehicle).

A modern 4WD farm tractor

Noun

tractor ‎(plural tractors)

1. (agriculture) A vehicle used in farms e.g. for pulling farm equipment and preparing the fields.
2. (US) A truck (or lorry) for pulling a semi-trailer or trailer.
3. Any piece of machinery, any thing that pulls something.
4. (aviation) An airplane where the propeller is located in front of the fuselage
5. (Britain, rail transportation) 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!

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

Related terms

See also

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

Verb

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.

Translations

Asturian

Noun

tractor m ‎(plural tractores)

1. (agriculture) tractor (farm vehicle)

Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology

From English tractor.

Noun

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

1. tractor (agricultural vehicle)

Synonyms

• trekker

Latin

Verb

tractor

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of tractō

References

• TRACTOR in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Portuguese

Noun

tractor m (plural tractores)

1. Obsolete spelling of trator

Spanish

Etymology

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

Noun

tractor m ‎(plural tractores)

1. tractor