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tractor
1. n. (agriculture) A vehicle used in farms e.g. for pulling farm equipment and preparing the fields.
2. n. (US) A truck (or lorry) for pulling a semi-trailer or trailer.
3. n. Any piece of machinery that pulls something.
4. n. (aviation) An airplane where the propeller is located in front of the fuselage
5. n. (rail transportation) A British Rail Class 37 locomotive.
6. n. (archaic) A metal rod used in tractoration, or Perkinism.
7. v. (transitive, agriculture) To prepare (land) with a tractor.
8. v. (transitive, scifi) To move with a tractor beam.
9. v. (transitive, medicine, archaic) To treat by means of tractoration, or Perkinism.

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When the chickens are flat as pancakes, then again the tractor must have been faster than them.  The back wheels on that tractor have ball bearings the size of my fist.  When the farmer drops dead off the tractor, then at the edge of the forest, there must be a reactor.

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