tractive
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of 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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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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The winning pair exerted a maximum tractive pull of 2,300 pounds.
From Time Magazine Archive
The boiler pressure is 140 lb. on the square inch, and the tractive power per lb. of mean pressure in cylinders, 92 lb.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884 by Various
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