trac·tor [tractortractors] BrE [ˈtræktə(r)] NAmE [ˈtræktər] noun 1. a powerful vehicle with two large and two smaller wheels, used especially for pulling farm machinery 2. (NAmE)the front part of a ↑tractor-trailer, where the driver sits
Word Origin: late 18th cent. (in the general sense ‘someone or something that pulls’): from Latin, from tract- ‘pulled’, from the verb trahere.
Example Bank: •a farmer on his tractor •the sound of a tractor ploughing in the field nearby
