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Tractor

noun

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.

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"Tractor" Quotes from Famous Books

... else against it. We need a touring-car for the family, and a runabout for you and me,—do sell that great ark of yours, and get something you can learn to run yourself, and that won't use half the gasoline,—and a tractor to plough with, and a truck to take the ...

— The Old Gray Homestead • Frances Parkinson Keyes

... more etherealized form, begins to assert its sway. The allegorical serpent of Eden is working upon the feminine portion, symbolized by the heart, and, like a magnetic tractor, the soul's affinities are drawn downward, and, as if in defiance of all responsibilities, consequences, and Karma, the soul, lion-like, "shakes his mane in ...

— The Light of Egypt, Volume II • Henry O. Wagner/Belle M. Wagner/Thomas H. Burgoyne

... a genius among experts you were told, as the master of a thunderous magic which shot its deadly lightnings over the German area! Let him move a red pin on the map and a tractor was towing a nine-inch gun to a new position; a black pin and a battery of eighteen pounders took the road. A thousand guns answered his call with a hundred thousand shells when it pleased him. I stood in awe of him, ...

— My Second Year of the War • Frederick Palmer

... been planning all the time how he would spring into his seat and start the motor, for when I looked round he was already there, and the great tractor screw was spinning as the exhaust spluttered viciously, making it impossible to reach him except from behind. With all my legs I ran round to the tail, calling upon the ...

— Master Tales of Mystery, Volume 3 • Collected and Arranged by Francis J. Reynolds

Words linked to "Tractor" : dozer, skidder, truck, tractor trailer, self-propelled vehicle, motortruck, bulldozer