Remuera tractor

/ (ˌrɛmʊˈɛərə) /

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noun

NZ informal a four-wheel drive vehicle

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Word Origin for Remuera tractor

from the name of a wealthy suburb of Auckland

Words nearby Remuera tractor

remover, Remscheid, Remsen, REM sleep, remuda, Remuera tractor, remunerate, remuneration, remunerative, Remus, Rena

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How to use Remuera tractor in a sentence

Juanita Schulze said as a train rammed through a stuck tractor-trailer.
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Highways were blocked off, leaving passengers waiting to be rescued by a tractor.
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He strolled casually down to a rude stone wall and watched the tractor churn toward him.
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Something had gone wrong with his gasoline tractor, and she knew he had spent two or three hours finding out the fault.
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All told of strenuous effort in which sweating men and horses had been aided by tractor machines.
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