tractor

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Related topics: Agriculture, Motor vehicles

trac·tor /ˈtræktə $ -ər/ ●○○ noun [countable]   TATTRa strong vehicle with large wheels, used for pulling farm machinery 拖拉机

Examples from the Corpus

tractor• That's about what you'd expect for a tractor of this size.• Carla Miller was widowed when a tractor rolled over on her husband.• It took two additional tractors to disinter the float and permit Hirt and Channing to go on with the show.• We had to have waders and tractors to go through the streets.• I left Don one morning, just after he came in off his tractor from the fields.• He opens a surfer shop in Ames, Iowa, right down the street from the tractor repair shop.• All the time the tractor is sinking Through the degrees, deepening Into its hell of ice.• Knocked from its invisible supporting cradle of needle-thin tractor beams, the effigy swayed.Origin tractor (1700-1800) Modern Latin Latin trahere “to pull”

trac·tor nounChineseSyllable  

large vehicle Corpus strong pulling a used with for wheels, machinery farm

tractor
trac‧tor /ˈtræktə $ -ər/ noun [countable]
a strong vehicle with large wheels, used for pulling farm machinery

trac·torBrE /ˈtræktə(r)/ 🔊NAmE /ˈtræktər/ 🔊 noun

a powerful vehicle with two large and two smaller wheels, used especially for pulling farm machinery 拖拉机；牵引机

arable, barn, crop, cultivate, dairy, fallow, farm, graze, livestock, tractor

(NAmE) the front part of a tractor-trailer, where the driver sits （牵引式挂车的）牵引车，拖车头