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tractor out en · VERB
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(historical, transitive) To dismiss (a tenant, etc.) while replacing manual labour with tractors.
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 […]
1973, Lucas Webb, Stribling: A Novel: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 […]
1965, Oscar Cargill, Toward a Pluralistic Criticism:
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