Other forms: tractors
A tractor is the powerful farm vehicle built to pull machinery. Enormous rear wheels, and a cab up high.
The point of it is pulling rather than carrying, which is why the rear tyres are so large and the weight is arranged the way it is. It transformed farming within a generation and put an end to working horses. Modern ones cost as much as a house and steer themselves by satellite. Getting stuck behind one on a country road is a defining British experience.
1nountractorA powerful vehicle used on farms to pull machinery.
“A tractor was blocking the lane for twenty minutes.”
A tractor is simply a puller. Latin trahō meant to pull, and the ending on the end of it names the doer of the thing.
Latin
tractus
English, today
tractor
Built from
Formed from Latin tractus, perfect passive participle of trahō (“to pull”), + agent noun suffix -or.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA