tractive
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of tractive
Example Sentences
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Dr. V. Gordon Childe of Edinburgh described a 5,000-year-old dog sled, whose runners were found in a bed of Finnish peat moss and which he called the oldest dated "nonhuman tractive power."
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The Bank of America, which financed the merger with $54 million and expected its money back by Jan. 1, advised Air West's management to sell the company "before it is no longer at tractive."
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By means of a hydraulic wagon, or dynamometer, recently invented, the "tractive pull" of horse teams was determined with scientific accuracy for the first time.
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Horatio's hero is always a prince in disguise, playing the part of a fiddler, a bootblack, a hired boy, but with at tractive, cheerful and resolute features under the dirt.
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The tractive force was, of course, the Eskimo dogs, and sledges were the means of transportation.
From The North Pole Its Discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic Club by Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin)
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