tractive
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of tractive
Example Sentences
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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."
From Time Magazine Archive
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."
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
As to cables, since the recovery of energy available for tractive purposes is but 35 percent., then the engine of 169 horse power represents what must be had.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 611, September 17, 1887 by Various
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