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tractor out

verb

tractor out

verb
1

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

  • 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:
  • 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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