tractor out

verb

To dismiss (a tenant, etc.) while replacing manual labour with tractors.

First used 1930s
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Meanings

verbtractor out (third-person singular simple present tractors out, present participle tractoring out, simple past and past participle tractored out)

present singular third person tractors out · participle present tractoring out · participle past tractored out · past tractored out

  1. historicaltransitiveTo dismiss (a tenant, etc.) while replacing manual labour with tractors.First known use 1930s

    How is one to elucidate or scrutinize Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath with no reference to the Dust Bowl, the tractoring out of the Okies […]

    1965, Oscar Cargill, Toward a Pluralistic Criticism
    1 more example

    But there was no place to go to farm or settle; the farms were being deserted, the big combines tractoring out the shacks and the little fields […]

    1973, Lucas Webb, Stribling: A Novel
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