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a
: a 4-wheeled or tracklaying automotive vehicle used especially for drawing farm equipment
b
: a smaller 2-wheeled apparatus controlled through handlebars by a walking operator
2
: an airplane having the propeller forward of the main supporting surfaces
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Lyrically, the song brims with imagery of rural living — wide open plains, John Deere tractors and glowing red sunsets — while the song’s protagonist dreams of building a family and a future in those same, slow-rolling rural settings.
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Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 18 Feb. 2025
Or what is the effect on the farmers when the arrival of a single tractor costing 3000 yuan — a multiple of their collective annual income — promises to obliterate their very understanding of living with the land?
—Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 17 Feb. 2025
John Deere showed off new autonomous tractor technology in vehicles that towered over attendees.
—Kate Conger, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2025
Family Farms is Broward County’s lone strawberry u-pick, home to 10 acres of strawberry plants, along with cows, chickens, bunnies and tractor hayrides that rumble to life on the weekends.
—Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 13 Jan. 2025
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Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 18 Feb. 2025
Or what is the effect on the farmers when the arrival of a single tractor costing 3000 yuan — a multiple of their collective annual income — promises to obliterate their very understanding of living with the land?
—Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 17 Feb. 2025
John Deere showed off new autonomous tractor technology in vehicles that towered over attendees.
—Kate Conger, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2025
Family Farms is Broward County’s lone strawberry u-pick, home to 10 acres of strawberry plants, along with cows, chickens, bunnies and tractor hayrides that rumble to life on the weekends.
—Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 13 Jan. 2025
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“Tractor.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tractor. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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tractor
noun
trac·tor
ˈtrak-tər 
1
: a vehicle that has large rear wheels or moves on tracks and is used especially for pulling farm implements
2
: a short truck with no body used in combination with a trailer for hauling freight
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