tractor

noun

A vehicle having a powerful gasoline or diesel motor and usually large, heavily treaded rear tires, used especially for pulling farm implements or machinery.

noun

A truck having a cab and no body, used for pulling large vehicles such as vans or trailers.

noun

An airplane propeller mounted in front of the supporting surfaces.

noun

An airplane having such a propeller.

noun

A toothed mechanism that automatically advances perforated continuous-form paper through a computer printer.

noun

That which draws or is used for drawing; specifically, in the plural, metallic tractors. See the phrase.

noun

A traction-engine for use on streets and highways. Such tractors may be used to drag loaded vehicles, to drag plows in a gang, or to haul artillery-wagons and fieldpieces.

noun

The frame and steel rope by which a gang of plows is drawn across a field by a tractionengine.

noun

That which draws, or is used for drawing.