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 Wordtractor: 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