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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. a wheeled vehicle with large wheels; used in farming and other applications;

2. a truck that has a cab but no body; used for pulling large trailers or vans;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Tractor \Tract"or\, n. [NL., from L. trahere, tractum, to draw.] 1. That which draws, or is used for drawing. [1913 Webster] 2. pl. (Med.) Two small, pointed rods of metal, formerly used in the treatment called Perkinism. [1913 Webster] 3. a motor vehicle with a powerful engine and large wheels, used to pull farm equipment such as plows, harvesting machinery, etc., over farm land. Smaller forms of farm tractor are completely open, with only a seat for the driver. [PJC] 4. a motor vehicle with a driver's cab and a powerful engine, fitted with a coupling at the rear, and designed to pull a large trailer or semi-trailer on the open highway; -- called also truck tractor. The combination of such a tractor with its trailer is called a tractor-trailer, and is a common form of truck used for commercial shipping of freight. [PJC] 5. (Aviation) A propeller screw placed in front of the supporting planes of an aeroplane instead of behind them, so that it exerts a pull instead of a push; -- called also Tractor screw and Tractor propeller. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] 6. (Aviation) An airplane having one or more tractor propellers; -- called also tractor airplane. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Tractor airplane \Trac"tor air"plane\, n. (Aviation) An airplane having one or more tractor propellers; -- called also tractor. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

tractor n 1: a wheeled vehicle with large wheels; used in farming and other applications 2: a truck that has a cab but no body; used for pulling large trailers or vans
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

29 Moby Thesaurus words for "tractor": Cat, Caterpillar, DUKW, Rome plow, amphibian, bulldozer, calfdozer, crawler, creeper, double-prop, duck, go-devil, grader, halftrack, lawn-tractor, multi-prop, piston plane, propeller plane, propjet, pusher, pusher plane, scraper, single-prop, tank, tracklayer, traction engine, turbo-prop, turbo-propeller plane, twin-prop