Definition of TRACTOR

tractor

Plural: tractors

Noun

  • A powerful motor vehicle used for pulling heavy farm equipment.
  • a wheeled vehicle with large wheels; used in farming and other applications
  • a truck that has a cab but no body; used for pulling large trailers or vans
  • A vehicle used in farms e.g. for pulling farm equipment and preparing the fields.
  • A movable coop without a floor to allow for free ranging.
  • A truck (or lorry) for pulling a semi-trailer or trailer.
  • Any piece of machinery that pulls something.
  • An aeroplane where the propeller is located in front of the fuselage.
  • A British Rail Class 37 locomotive.
  • A metal rod used in tractoration, or Perkinism.

Verb

  • To prepare (land) with a tractor.
  • To drive a tractor.
  • To move with a tractor beam.
  • To treat by means of tractoration, or Perkinism.

Examples

  • Playing TRACTOR, he plowed through my defenses, leaving a high score in its wake.

Origin / Etymology

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

Scrabble Score: 9

tractor: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
tractor: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
tractor: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 10

tractor: valid Words With Friends Word