tractor out

verb

Definitions

  1. 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 […]
    • 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 […]

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